Telemetry is not a four-letter word.
You wouldn't know that to listen to the relentless hammering of the technology by Windows 10 critics, who see it as a form of "spying" on the part of Microsoft. Unfortunately, many of those critics have used
unreliable data , compounded by a misunderstanding of the basic technology, to form their opinions.
In this article, I want to take a closer look at the way that telemetry works and the data it collects. This article relies primarily on my own testing, using a number of Microsoft-provided tools as well as third-party utilities.
My research also included discussions with engineers as well as reviews of some thorough but obscure documentation. The most useful resource I found is a detailed technical paper written for IT pros and published in the TechNet Library:
Configure telemetry and other settings in your organization . (That article has a convenient short link:
aka.ms/ConfigureTelemetry.)
