Yep, windows has documented it fairly well with the possible configuration options: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...
Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by GeekyBear on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:23PM
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As far as telemetry goes, there is a simple on or off checkbox in the Security and Privacy control panel.
Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by xlocicicig on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:50AM
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This is somewhat misinformed. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3159424/microsoft-windo...
Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by GeekyBear on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:59PM
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I should have been clearer that I was referring to how one turns off telemetry on MacOS.
The real issue being that it is set to ON by default and that it tends to reset itself randomly after updates.
Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program
by GeekyBear on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:54PM
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I'd say the real issue is that Windows 10 not only defaults to having telemetry turned on, but that it also does not allow a system administrator to turn it completely off.
However, I would agree that if preferences are changing without user intervention, that would definitely be a problem.
I haven't heard about users having that problem and can't find examples of it happening on the web. Do you have a citation?
You probably could with the same amount of effort for Windows, but at least Windows makes it more clear that it is happening.