Re:Windows package manager does not permit opting out of tel...
by Hawxy on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:25PM
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FYI what they're referring to is this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-dia...
This page outlines everything additional they recieve on the Full setting.
> In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager.
I recall reading something similar, but for Windows 10. AFAIK it said that engineers diagnosing a difficult problem can select a group of machines to receive raw telemetry from, after getting permission from managers + microsoft's privacy team. I have a feeling it was for insider builds only though.
> Full: All data necessary to identify and help to fix problems, plus data from the Security, Basic, and Enhanced levels.
In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager.
Anyway, “All data necessary to identify and help to fix problems” pretty clearly implies they can pull whatever they want as they debug. I don’t see how they could implement that without exposing customers to warrant requests.