I sure as heck don’t want complete strangers monitoring and saving information about my every move. I don’t know about you, but I don’t even like my boss looking over my shoulder while I’m working.
It turns out that there are plenty of “convenience” features in Microsoft’s latest Windows release that look to monitor your every move on the Windows desktop in order to “improve the Windows experience.”
I have to admit that the interface and overall experience of Windows 10 is much improved over 8.īut what about privacy in Windows 10? What’s changed? And users can always switch off diagnostic data collection if it doesn't sit well with them.You’ve been told over and over that Windows 10 is the best thing since MS-DOS 5, and you’ve finally broken down and updated your PC from Windows 8. In other words, Edge claims that it collects user data to optimize the browser for future upgrades, not to spy on users' browser history. "On Windows, this identifier enables a single-click ability to delete the related diagnostic data associated with the device ID stored on Microsoft servers at any time." "Microsoft Edge sends diagnostic data used for product improvement purposes, which includes a device identifier," a Microsoft spokesperson told ZDNet. Plus, all three browsers tag requests with varying identifiers as opposed to Edge's hardware-persistent identifiers.Ĭhrome has already been hinting that the new Microsoft browser is insecure, and now Dublin-based researchers are pulling the curtains back on Edge's not-so-great user security. And over time, the accumulated data can reveal your identity.Ĭhrome, Safari and Firefox tag requests with user identifiers, too, but Winbuzzer notes that this info is reset when the browser is reinstalled.
The issue here with Edge, according to Leith, is that the browser persistently sends users' hardware ID to back-end servers (along with your IP address and location). If you're wondering where other browsers, like Chrome, stand with user privacy, here's how Professor Douglas Leith (one of the study's researchers) classified all six browsers: "In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex," he told ZDNet.
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