Apparently the newsworthy part is the automatically generated report based on the default settings aspect.TI-994A wrote:Not exactly newsflash. Apparently, it's been around since Windows Vista.heartbone wrote:Windows 10 automatically sends parents detailed dossier of their children's internet history and computer use
Not exactly; the reports are always generated automatically, as per the settings. The only difference is, it's now enabled by default.heartbone wrote:Apparently the newsworthy part is the automatically generated report based on the default settings aspect.
From their home or school computer?heartbone wrote:The investigators pull the web browsing history of all the students
I have also turned off updating on my win 7 and 8.1 computers, I do not want 10, if you want to get rid of the win10 update stuff uninstall these updates. KB3035583, KB2952664, KB2876229, KB2976978, the first two are for win7 32bit the last two are for win8.1 64bit, not sure if this is strict so best to look for all these updates from about May. Have not tried this yet, but once these have been removed and then do a search for updates and if they appear in the list again to set them as hidden so they do not get included when updating.IdeasVacuum wrote:Microsoft to Force Windows 10 Download by Default
https://www.infopackets.com/news/9712/m ... ad-default
I have already stopped updating my Win 8.1 Laptop because Win10 starts to auto-download, selected or not.
That doesn't matter.electrochrisso wrote:....but once these have been removed and then do a search for updates and if they appear in the list again to set them as hidden so they do not get included when updating.
^ THIS. Microsoft does not own our PCs; we do. It's not theirs to muck around with as they please. If we don't want Windows 10, then they have no legal or moral right to install it without our permission.DontTalkToMe wrote:I don't have to justify to Microsoft.
Agreed, but MS are control freaks and are probably working for US intelligence services, that is why I will not touch win10, especially since they are trying to force it on every win7 and 8 system, and they do not even do a check to see if the hardware can even operate let alone the installed software, MS has probably destroyed many systems by now.Dude wrote:Even if Windows is preinstalled, it doesn't give them the right to change it.
Earlier this month Microsoft finally went on record admitting that automatic spying within Windows 10 cannot be stopped. This sparked a lot of outrage and with ‘Threshold 2’ it appeared Microsoft had done a sharp U-turn because the background service at the heart tracking (the ‘Diagnostics Tracking Service’ aka ‘DiagTrack’) appeared to have been removed. Critics celebrated and it was another well deserved pat on the back for Microsoft.
Except it turns out Microsoft had just been very sneaky. What Tweakhound discovered and was subsequently confirmed by BetaNews, is Microsoft simply renamed DiagTrack. It is now called the ‘Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service’ – which is both a) deliberately vague, and b) misleading (don’t ‘Connected User Experiences’ sound great).
Even sneakier is, in being renamed, Microsoft also reset users preferences. Those who dug deep into the Windows 10 registry to disable DiagTrack will find it has been re-enabled now it is called the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service. Yes, tracking is back and without any warning and your preferences were irrelevant.
I’d say the problem with the DiagTrack rebrand is the company wasn’t thinking. Subtle under the hood changes will always be picked up for such a high profile product. That said such a move is consistent with the negatives in Threshold 2 namely: it resets many user preferences (including basics like your preferred web browser) if they weren’t Microsoft product/services as well as silently deleting third party system monitoring apps like: CPU-Z, speccy, 8gadgetpack, SpyBot, HWMonitor and more.
