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Re:Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released by Someone1234 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:24PM (#11441157)
The keylogger thing originated from the Public Test Preview of Windows 10. Microsoft told you when you install it that there was extensive telemetry, and they weren't kidding.

People continue to claim that it is still part of Windows 10 which has never been proven and most of these complaints aren't based on fact.

Re:Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released by acqq on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:30PM (#11441215)
From the MSFT's link for Enterprise version:

"At telemetry levels Enhanced and Full, Microsoft uses Linguistic Data Collection info to improve language model features such as autocomplete, spellcheck, suggestions, input pattern recognition, and dictionary. For more info, see the Get to know me setting in the Speech, inking, & typing section of this article and the Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future setting in the General section of this article. Note

Microsoft doesn't intentionally gather sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, email addresses, or other similarly sensitive information for Linguistic Data Collection. We guard against such events by using technologies to identify and remove sensitive information before linguistic data is sent from the user's device"

Of course, they can't know if anybody is typing the password in the wrong field or at the time they didn't expect.

Re:Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released by Karunamon on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:36PM (#11441271)
I'd be more inclined to believe that if it weren't for the fact[1] that it continues talking to Microsoft even when explicitly told not to.

I would have sworn there was a Reddit post where someone documented the same behavior on Enterprise SKUs as well, but I'm either mistaken or can't find it.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...