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Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program by GeekyBear on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:23PM (#14859929)
As far as telemetry goes, there is a simple on or off checkbox in the Security and Privacy control panel.
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Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program by xlocicicig on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:50AM (#14863837)
This is somewhat misinformed. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3159424/microsoft-windo...
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Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program by GeekyBear on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:59PM (#14871856)
I should have been clearer that I was referring to how one turns off telemetry on MacOS.
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Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program by skgoa on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:14AM (#14863257)
The real issue being that it is set to ON by default and that it tends to reset itself randomly after updates.
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Re:Announcing the Windows Bounty Program by GeekyBear on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:54PM (#14871838)
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?

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