As a quick reminder, Windows 10 v1903 finally arrived in May 2019 after having being cancelled in April due to major glitches.
Is Microsoft spying on us?
Naturally, the update added some new features and improvements to the OS, but it also retained a few issues from the old versions. One of them is about the existence of telemetry in the Task Scheduler. Can we really call it spying if it only grabs hardware data? Some people seem to think so: The issue seems to be recurrent. More so, in the Windows 10 May Update, the task can’t be completely removed because it will reinitialize at every boot.
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Microsoft collects hardware data to improve future products
This is not so much a security issue, as it is a privacy one. In this case, if you want to keep the hardware info and not send it to Microsoft, it’s recommended to turn off Customer Experience Improvement Program. You can do that by following the steps:
As you can see, the May update brings some privacy issues that can be pretty annoying for some and totally uninteresting for others. The problem isn’t with the data collection, but with the option to turn it on or off. If you encountered a similar issue after updating to Windows 10 v1903, tell us how did you dealt with it? Leave the answer along with any other questions in the comments section below.
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