Wednesday, March 9, 2016

What Windows 10 Knows About You


Windows 10 collects astonishing amounts of information about its users, with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 to follow the trend with newly published Windows Updates. The following information is collected and transmitted to Microsoft:
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    Everything you type on the keyboard (effectively, Windows 10 comes with a built-in keylogger)
    Wiretapping: Windows 10 can listen to your microphone and engage your webcam in background without you even knowing (no, this is not a hoax)
    Logins and passwords to Web sites, social networks
    Fragments of email messages, chats and text messages (including those you send and receive via crypto-messengers such as Telegram)
    Your geolocation coordinates (GPS, AGPS or approximate IP-based coordinates)
    Your complete Web browsing history
    Your search queries
    Wi-Fi access points and their passwords
    List of installed applications
    Information about your listening preferences including the names of music tracks you’re listening
    Call logs
    Your calendar entries, events and meetings
    Your address book
    BitLocker escrow keys: if you encrypt your hard drive or eMMC memory with BitLocker, recovery keys are automatically uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive; Microsoft Privacy Policy allows the company disclosing those keys to government agencies by request
    Future Windows 10 updates are rumoured to disable features if the system discovers what it considers to be “incompatible” or “unlicensed” software or hardware components

Privacy Protector for Windows 10

There is no easy way of completely disabling the tracking features of Windows. Even if you disable all the tracking features in the Privacy applet of the new Control Panel, Windows 10 will still keep collecting and transmitting many types of data.

To help you fix Windows 10 privacy issues, we developed an all-in-one tool. Privacy Protector for Windows 10 allows you to disable select or all tracking services found in Windows 10 and delivered to Windows 8.1, 8 and Windows 7 with updates. Privacy Protector for Windows 10 does the following things to stop Windows 10 tracking:
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    Deletes or disables Telemetry
    Clears and disables DiagTrack Log
    Stops, blocks or removes over 37 tracking services, including tracking activities discovered in the following Windows services:
        Cortana background tracking services
        Media Center
        Customer Experience Improvement Program
        Power Efficiency Diagnostics
        Family Safety Monitor
        Office ClickToRun Service Monitor
        Application Experience
        Office Telemetry
        Disk Diagnostic
        Media Center
        Windows Search
    Disables Keylogger, preventing Microsoft from collecting information you type on your keyboard
    Disables Windows Defender.
    Disables Cortana to prevent background collection and transmission of data recorded with your microphone and webcam
    Disables Windows Update, allowing you blocking unwanted updates
    Selectively rolls back certain Windows Updates enabling tracking features (for Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and Windows 7)
    Disables certain Telemetry and tracking modules in Microsoft Office 2016
    Optionally blocks Microsoft Office updates
    Enables users to uninstall OneDrive
    Enables disabling Bing Search
    Enables uninstalling built-in and non-removable Metro and Universal applications, releasing RAM and effectively stopping additional tracking performed by these applications
    Enables the ability to remove all Metro and Universal applications, effectively bringing your Windows 10 installation as close to Windows 7 as at all possible (you’ll have to download the old Calculator app though)
    Allows reinstalling Windows 7-8 Picture Viewer
    Blocks more than 60 Microsoft IP addresses engaged in user activity tracking on host level (by modifying the hosts file)
    Blocks IP addresses from the tracking network by creating Windows Firewall rules
    Automatically creates a Restore Point before making changes to the system
    Most Privacy Fixes can be reverted if required
    Some Privacy Fixes cannot be reversed even via System Recovery

http://www.softorbits.com/windows-10-privacy-protector/thanks.html

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