data collection

Ah, Windows telemetry—it's like that friend you never invited to dinner but somehow knows everything you had for breakfast. When you’re cruising through Windows 11—adjusting settings, firing up applications, or just minding your own business—the operating system is busy collecting an array of...

Introduction Windows 11, touted by Microsoft as a significant evolution of its operating system, has had a turbulent journey since its release. As the deadline for Windows 10 support approaches, many users find themselves hesitant to upgrade to this new version. And who can blame them? From...

I'm an experienced programmer, but new to AI. I'm trying to learn ML techniques by building a bot to play a video game. I'm documenting my process as I go. The game I'm focusing on 1st is TFT (TeamFightTactics) which is in the AutoBattler genre - Essentially, you try to build the strongest...

Find out how Cortana uses your personal data to personalize your experiences and assistance, and how to control which data is collected. Continue reading...

We can hardly believe it’s been about one year since we launched the new Microsoft Edge – and what a year it’s been! It’s safe to say that a lot has changed since our launch in January 2020, but one thing that remains constant is our commitment to our users. We’re all more dependent on the web...

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Migrating legacy web apps to modern standards can be both costly and time consuming. IT departments are generally cost centers, and it makes sense for enterprises to want to maximize the ROI on their existing LOB apps. Many of these sites may continue to exist without being upgraded for a while...

Hi! My name is Anita George, and I am the leader of the two Bug Bashes for the Windows 10 Creators Update (the one in November 2016 and the one we just finished up in Feb). For this most recent Bug Bash, Windows Insiders completed approximately 108,900 Quests and submitted or upvoted an...

:andwhat: NSA Surveillance Can Penetrate VPNs National Security Agency's XKeyscore system can collect just about everything that happens online, even things encrypted by VPNs, according to Edward Snowden. The National Security Agency has a system that allows it to collect pretty much...

European authorities raise fresh concerns over Windows 10 data collection (via neowin.net) A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced changes to Windows 10 to offer users greater control over how it collects data about them from its devices and services. Among the changes were a new web privacy...

Hi I want the old internet back, the last time I wanted to buy a new car I got online and spent weeks looking at new cars and getting prices that showed what people had really paid for them. I went to look at a new Honda Accord V6 Coupe with a 6 speed manual transmission. The salesman said he...

This week’s app is all about the Internet of Things. Best For You is a sample fitness UWP app focused on collecting data from a fictional IoT enabled yoga wear and presenting it to the user in a meaningful and helpful way on all of their devices to track health and progress of exercise. In this...

Marie Mawad and Stefan Nicola | Bloomberg As makers of household appliances fill their machines with computer chips to make them smarter, consumers and privacy watchdogs should beware the data collected by these objects and how it’s used, says Marco Preuss, a director on Kaspersky’s global...

Written by Rinku Sreedhar, Program Manager for Windows Contextual Sensing. We hope you are as excited as we are about the new Contextual Sensing APIs in Windows 10. We introduced multiple new Sensor APIs that will let you enable contextual awareness in your apps. I have received several...

Link Removed SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the first time an open source, third-party library, such as SQLite, has shipped as part...

Watch yourselves boys and girls because Link Removed has created something special (scary?) here! Learn how you can perform your own Lie Detection tests by capturing EEG (brainwave) data and then feeding that info into Azure Machine Learning to determine when people are telling you the truth and...

thoughts about windows 10 privacy intrusion that one agrees to when one chooses to accept the windows 10 upgrade.

In today’s connected world, maintaining our privacy is an incredibly important topic to each of us, thus we welcome the questions and the feedback we’ve received since launching Windows 10. Trust is a core pillar of our More Personal Computing vision, and we know we have to earn it. We’ve taken...

In the Control Panel Action Center I have Opted out of participating in the CEIP program (don't ever remember opting in). Here's what I see: Task scheduler Customer Experience Improvement Program (3 tasks) Consolidator (%SystemRoot%\System32\wsqmcons.exe) KernelCeipTask (Custom Handler)...

In a new privacy statement, Samsung has clarified what voice data its eavesdropping TV actually collects from you. Continue reading...