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Re:Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023 by mfer on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:42PM (#27750940)
How does Windows track all the things? What of the information they do collect doesn't have an opt-in/out? The opt-in/out is part of the setup process (in the cases I've seen) so it's not hidden away.

I'm not a Windows fan or anything like that. Don't even use Windows as one of my main systems. I'm just dealing with it so I've seen some of these things.

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Re:Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023 by lp0_on_fire on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:50PM (#27751089)
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/data-collection-windows

Goes into more detail as to what they collect.

Browsing data, devices connected to the system, what you type, or transcribe via text or ink (speech to text, handwriting to text etc), what applications you're running and for how long.

> The opt-in/out is part of the setup process (in the cases I've seen) so it's not hidden away.

It gets reset _literally_ every time they push out a larger update. They prompt you with a modal form that defaults to tracking turned on (even though I had it turned off to begin with). Guess someone at Microsoft figured out that the tech-literate among us were turning that setting off as soon as our non-tech-literate family/friends took their PCs out of the box around the Christmas tree.

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Re:Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023 by monocasa on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:50PM (#27751082)
It has a really bad habit of resetting the opt-outs on updates, so about every six months.
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