As users become more concerned about how their data is being harvested and used by software and sites that they use, companies have started to become more transparent about the information they ...

Although Microsoft collects diagnostic data from your computer, it is possible to delete them if you want to. If you do not wish to allow other users to delete diagnostic data in Windows 11/10, you ...

“Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week, Microsoft Monday includes details about the PlayFab acquisition, a patch for Intel’s Spectre firmware update, a ...

Regardless of how you may feel about the recent reports of Facebook posts being data-mined, the incident shined a light on something that has been a personal pet peeve for years: ambiguous data ...

A new app in the latest Windows 10 test build gives users some insight into the kind of privacy-related information that Microsoft collects from their devices. Windows 10 build 17083, which was ...

With Windows Insider build 17083, Microsoft responded to criticism about transparency by adding a 'Diagnostic Data Viewer' app to the OS for beta users to try out. Microsoft last week gave Windows 10 ...

In Windows 11, you can opt out of sending some (but not all) diagnostic data to Microsoft. The OS offers several privacy settings to limit diagnostics and telemetry collection, but you need to know ...

Windows Insider Program participants will now be able to view and manage their Microsoft accounts via a newly released, diagnostics-based privacy dashboard. Dubbed "The Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer, ...

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The company could easily give users the ability to control what information is sent to it, but that’s not what it has in mind. In late January, Microsoft embarked on a PR blitz to reassure Windows ...