Is Windows 10 telemetry a threat to your personal privacy?

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Ed Bott responds to his ZDNet colleague (see here).

Is Windows 10 telemetry a threat to your personal privacy?

[Disclaimer: Betteridge's law of headlines applies to this article.]

In fact, there are more privacy protections in the telemetry framework for Windows 10 than there were in earlier Windows versions. I described these privacy options several weeks ago, but will repeat that section in its entirety here, because it's worth reading carefully, and because Adrian's post doesn't seem to have considered the privacy protections already available in Windows 10.

Ed goes on to give specific examples of where such telemetry data was instrumental in quickly identifying buggy Windows Updates and the recent problem with NVIDIA drivers - all WITHOUT any personally identifiable data being sent to Microsoft. This allowed fixes to go out within hours instead of potentially weeks.

Is Windows 10 telemetry a threat to your personal privacy?