Even with the new changes to protect our privacy, Microsoft still does not completely leave the end-user available to opt-out data collection in Windows 10.
The company announced on Wednesday it has fully review some of the protection practices of his privacy in relation to the amount of data collected by Windows 10, as well as the data sent to the company.
The company announced the changes by first reporting at most "after your comments," through Windows developer Terry Myerson in a blog post. Myerson said upcoming changes to Windows 10 will include new privacy controls and settings that will "help secure your privacy."
The changes include a "new Microsoft web privacy dashboard that lets you easily view and manage your data activity."
After the release of the operating system, Microsoft has been involved in a continuing debate about how much Windows 10 data travels to its headquarters.
The launch of Windows 10 has been marred by accusations that the software cheats users on the setup screen since telemetry and other data collection technologies are necessary to support various Windows features. Installation enables almost every data collection feature, location, history search and many more transmitted to the company's servers.
Swiss privacy regulators were among the first to complain about Microsoft's data collection techniques.
Data protection guard in France, CNIL, said he was also impressed by Microsoft's actions, but also asked the company to correct the privacy settings.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), he said in a brief tweet that he expects "more details", but called the changes "important and welcome."
Let's say that Myerson wrote in his blog that the setup screen will now contain two options, complete and basic data collection, but none of these settings offer a complete opt-out.
In other words, there is no "off" yet, there is an "almost off."
The company has not yet told us what exactly it is collecting as part of the basic level of protection, except that data is used to improve its software and services.
Microsoft essentially asks its users to trust it. And while the likelihood that the company will not do anything with the user information it collects is small and perhaps unlikely, say that we ultimately trust the company. But everything could be overturned if Microsoft received a command from a government agency or even if the data was stolen by intelligent hackers.
So while the change in the controls of our private life seems to be in the right direction, we still have a long way to go.
Ignoring its customers' biggest privacy complaint by providing a setting that allows fullactivation data collection, Microsoft seems to have once again found an approach to appease regulators.
And life goes on…