gdid

Microsoft is right about one narrow point in the latest Windows 11 privacy dispute: the Global Device Identifier, or GDID, is not a newly deployed tracking service. But the denial leaves untouched the reason the issue exploded in the first place: a federal court filing shows Microsoft has long...

Microsoft’s Windows operating system uses a persistent Global Device Identifier, or GDID, that can distinguish one Windows installation from another across selected Microsoft services—and there is no ordinary privacy switch that lets users disable it. The identifier became a public controversy...