Microsoft to address latest Windows 10 privacy concerns with Creators Update

Windows 10 has faced a growing number of privacy concerns in recent months. While Microsoft has responded to some previously, the latest criticism came from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, accusing the software maker of sending an “unprecedented amount of usage data” back to the company with Windows 10. Microsoft is now hoping to quell some of these fears with several changes to its privacy controls in the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update.

Microsoft is planning to simplify the diagnostic data collection levels, so that it’s clear what telemetry data is being sent back to the company’s servers. Currently there are three levels, but in the Creators Update there will be an option to switch between basic and full data collection...

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