Came across this article and given the recent hiatus re. the topic I thought that it makes a good round up for those worried or interested in the topic:
"Folks out there are a looking for free tools & software that will help them harden their Privacy settings in Windows 10. We have already see how you can change Windows 10 Privacy settings. That should suffice for most, but Microsoft has gone on record and said that Windows 10 data collection cannot be stopped.
In the cases where we’ve not provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health of the system. In the case of knowing that our system that we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we view that as so helpful to the ecosystem and so not an issue of personal privacy, that today we collect that data so that we make that experience better for everyone."
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