Win10 really leaks privacy? Win10 leaks the reason and the truth of the truth

Recently, foreign media revealed that Windows 10 will automatically collect user information, so that we have used the win10 system, since then privacy is passers-by, what is going on? Let's take a look at it.

1, Windows 10 Privacy: What is included?

The official version of Windows 10 has been released for more than half a month. I believe many users have already used this new generation of operating systems. Know how you rate it? Recently, there is an article saying that Windows 10 will collect user's private data by default. Is it true? For the sake of reason, Microsoft can't dare to invade user privacy information like some software, so what is it? What impact will it have on our average users? Take a look.

Microsoft Privacy Statement Have you seen it?

When installing Windows, you will see Microsoft's "Privacy Statement" from time to time. For example, during the installation of Windows 10, you need to enter the product key at the beginning of the installation. In that step, there is a privacy statement in the lower left corner, but this privacy statement is a bit helpless, that is, it is a privacy statement in the form of a link, not a text description. The user is installing Windows, how to open the link? To see, you have to prepare other equipment. The link address is here, interested users can look at it, more and more.

Figure 1 first privacy statement

The next step is the license terms, which describe the user’s installation and use rights, along with a bit of privacy, and a bunch of other Copyright restrictions and rights provisions. I believe that this long term is rarely used by users to read it. In short, you will agree to give it to you. If you do not agree, you should not install it.

Figure 2 license terms

Then the installation steps, if you skip the input product key in the previous step, there will be a prompt to enter the product key, there is privacy here The statement is also in the form of a link.









































One of them. In fact, if you use the quick setting, it is equivalent to allowing Windows to collect some information about you by default.

First, let's take a look at some of the details in the "Learn more" section.

1, Microsoft can collect and use data related to your voice, ink writing and typing on Windows devices, including data such as your contacts and calendar.

2, Microsoft will also collect words you type or handwritten to improve the system's character recognition performance.

3. Windows will generate a unique advertising ID for each user at the device vendor, which can be used by application developers and ad networks to provide relevant advertisements.

4, Microsoft's location service can use GPS, WLAN, cell phone tower or IP address to determine the exact location of the Windows device, the application. Sites and services can access and use this data to provide location services and applications.

5. Windows Explorer sends your browsing history to Microsoft, and Microsoft will automatically load the web pages you may be browsing based on this data.

6. Smartscreen Filter will send the first-time data information of the websites you browse and the downloaded documents to Microsoft to remind and protect you and your devices from unsafe web content or malware.

7. When there is a problem with Windows, data that can help diagnose, track, and resolve problems will be collected and sent to Microsoft. This data includes where problems occur in software and hardware, standard device information, and which applications are being used when the problem occurs.

8, Wlan Perception can automatically share your device access to the detected open Wlan network and your contacts to share the encrypted Wlan network.

It can be seen that under the default settings, Microsoft collects a lot of information, and there are some users' private information. Seeing to be scared? In fact, many of the information collected by free or even shared software may be more opaque than this information. For example, the input method collects the user's input habits and words, and the browser collects the user's browsing content. As for the positioning, N multi-computer and mobile application will require the user location information by default.

Overview of the shortcut settings in Figure 4.

If you are afraid that these privacy items are collected by Windows, then use the "custom settings" in this Windows installation step. Flexible switch some of the information collected by default above.

Figure 5 custom settings

Figure 6 custom settings two

To the end of the Windows 10 installation, there is a long "Microsoft Online Privacy Statement" ; clearly and clearly describes the personal data content collected by Microsoft, how to use the data, the reasons for sharing personal data and a series of privacy statement terms.

Figure 7 Personal data content collected by Microsoft

Figure 8 Personal data content collected by Microsoft 2

Seeing these collected content, privacy-conscious you may I will take a breath. You don't think that Microsoft is doing this, but Microsoft has written the disclosure of these collections on the privacy statement, and Microsoft is more focused on the information collected. Microsoft has given users at least the right to shut down relative to the sneaky behavior of some free and paid software.

2, Windows 10 Privacy: How to set the prohibition

Where is the privacy setting option in Windows 10? (How can I solve the problem of Win10 automatically collecting user privacy information?) If you choose Quick Setup when installing Windows 10, how do you perform related switch operations after installing the system? Look down.

First of all, in the Windows 10 new "Settings" tool, there is a special "Privacy" column with a bunch of items related to user privacy that can be switched.

Figure 9 Settings

Figure 10 Privacy Settings

Users can also set some hardware in addition to the items that were previously ignored in the "Quick Settings" The access settings of the device (camera, microphone, etc.), and even the background running permissions of the app.

It should be noted that users may not be allowed to modify the above settings in the beta version of Windows 10. The task of the Windows Insider beta project is to collect user usage and feedback, so by default, all relevant data will be sent back to Microsoft, and may be set to allow the project to be modified. If you care, don't try to install these preview versions, or use the official release. Also, don't open the "member version" in the update settings.

The system above Windows 8 also has a synchronization setting function, which allows users to automatically synchronize some settings of Windows with the MS account, so that they can be quickly called on another computer. These synced files include system settings and browser settings, and even passwords saved by the browser. If you don't need this feature, you can turn off the sync function in the “Accounts” setting in “Settings".

Figure 11 Synchronize your settings

Of course, Microsoft does not collect some of your important privacy data files, such as documents, photos, unless you choose to synchronize these documents. Windows 8 and above integrates OneDrive, Microsoft's "network disk", which will automatically sync files to OneDrive network storage. By default, OneDrive will automatically sync all files located in the OneDrive folder. Users can Select whether to sync files and the folders that need to be synchronized in its setup options.

Figure 12 OneDrive Synchronization Settings

Windows 10 will display the files and frequently used folders that users have recently used by default in Quick Access, which may cause users who use public computers to appear. You can turn this off in the “folder option”.

Figure 13 folder options

Figure 14 group strategy also has some items that can be closed

If you are too lazy to set the switch one by one, there is a special The tool "DoNotSpy10", which allows you to quickly and batchly set some privacy settings in Windows 10.

Figure 15 DoNotSpy10

Summary

While Windows 10 collects some users' private information under the default settings, most of this information is used to enhance the user experience and ensure They will not be leaked, and users can also switch them freely. For ordinary users, there is no need to worry about the occurrence of the pornographic event. After all, Windows does not actively collect user data files, such as documents and photos. If you are still worried, please close some of the above items about privacy collection.

In fact, most apps on Android phones upload your phone privacy more than Win10's "Privacy", and there are also a lot of rogue software on the computer.

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