When the Windows 10 Creators Update arrives next week, its users will have several privacy options to comb through in order to customize how much of their personal data Microsoft can collect.
Undoubtedly cognizant of the recent uproar over access to consumers’ computing data following President Trump’s approval of a resolution that allows ISPs to collect and sell it, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will share all the data it can collect on Windows 10 users, as well as offer them several options to turn off that sharing.
Although most monitoring categories in Windows 10 can be turned off, the full list of diagnostic data is remarkable for the level of detail with which Windows monitors its users’ computing habits. For example, the operating system can send Microsoft information on how many purchased tracks are in your music library, the resolution of your images and videos, the languages of the ebooks you’re…