Yesterday we presented some of Terry Myerson's excuses that he posted on the Microsoft blog trying to answer all the accusations of Windows 10 privacy violations.
While 99% of Myerson's post explains how Microsoft collects user information without violating their privacy, there is also a small reference explaining how telemetry services work in current versions of Windows 10.
In the “Data Security and Reliability” section, Myerson reveals the type of data collected from our computers (device ID, device type, and software and operating system failure data) and automatically sent to the company. The Windows development manager said that no other personal information, such as name, email address, and account numbers, is collected.
Myerson also mentions.
“Future enterprise updates released later this year will allow enterprise customers to disable telemetry, but we do not recommend it.”
This means that enterprises (enterprise Windows) will have full control over the data they agree to share, while consumers running Windows 10 Home or Pro will have no choice but to send their data to Microsoft (unless, of course, they use different methods of blocking telemetry).
Obviously, this is not fair to consumers, who expect to have full control over their data.
Myerson did not provide further information on when the update that allows telemetry to be disabled in Windows 10 Enterprise will be released.
