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Re:Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of ... by mmPzf on Sunday March 22, 2020 @02:29PM (#22657278)
One of my guesses is security. The story behind the discovery of MS08-067 reads like a strong argument in favour of some telemetry. The TLDR is that someone at Microsoft noticed a strange crash in some telemetry bucket, and it turned out to be a wormable zero-day. There's a write up at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/johnla/the-in..., for those interested, and even though that story is twelve years old by now the general premise still stands.
Re:Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of ... by threentaway on Sunday March 22, 2020 @02:36PM (#22657357)
Yep. Every year the Windows security team catches 0days that are under development from the crash logs telemetry and is able to patch them before they're mass exploited.