What many might not recognize is that most software companies, not just Microsoft, always collect your private data. It's stated in their terms of service or privacy policies.
That's true but however Microsoft are one of the top offenders! They want all your typing data your emails everything. Google chrome is the top offender it even sends an install Id to Google so they can link your pc to the browser!
That's why it is wise to use a good firewall to forbid them access to the internet. In Norton 360 the default is to assume you are incompetent so the default setting is to allow everything. You have to change it.
What a douchebag position to take. Literally anything could be written into those agreements. Really, intellectual property theft, transfer of identity rights, financial liability clauses, permission to spy on your or your family. EULA's are meaningless until litigated, they're written to be vague and encompassing and absolutely in benefit of whatever corporate initiative is popular at the time... They can say LITERALLY WHATEVER THEY WANT, it doesn't mean its legal or that one EULA is equivalent to another.
I'm curious why Microsoft only collaborated with Intel when developing Windows 11. What was the reason behind that move and why, especially knowing that AMD is experiencing an uptick in demand for their processors. If I was AMD, I would want to know why.
Microshit always has favored Intel.. and the big computer makers ie:HP, dell, etc as they used to always only use Intel, although a lot now offer both Intel and AMD
Intel has a larger market share. AMD is known to not care about collaborating with software vendors to ensure their hardware is properly supported. Intel goes out of their way to work with software vendors.
Good intentions does not excuse violation of privacy. Microsoft SHOULD still have to get permission from their customers before collecting this data (regardless of the reason, isn't this WHY Microsoft has an early access / beta release track). AND NOT via some unread and intentionally vague EULA / license agreement.
@@KevinStratvert Except you can't opt out of everything. Basic telemetry.. I mean "diagnostics" is as low as a Home user can go. Even on Enterprise (and Pro, AFAIR) you can go one step below that, to "Security" / 0, but you can't turn it off completely.
I have checked all my Security Permissions in Windows 11, everything is ok. Must admit, I'm really enjoying Windows 11 a lot! First two attempts I upgraded to Windows 11 from within Windows 10, which was a huge mistake. Third time I did a clean install of Windows 11, and it's simply superb. Thanks Kev!
Win 10 spies and so does 11. I had to almost break win10 to stop most espionage. Some systems like clock sync dont work, so I paused updates for 5 years :P by firs going 5 years in the future and pausing it for month :P firewall blocking MS servers etc.
Windows 11 and StartAllBack do the trick for me. Restores all the productivity of windows 10 and its pedecessors. Still don't know why they changed the taskbar to no longer show task manager. Used that a lot.
hey can you use stuff like frostwire, can you use firefox browser, can you use anything that isnt microsoft.. no.. yea i thought so windows 11 sucks big time..
Keviiiiin, You have no idea how much I've learned with your videos! you have a great way of teaching. I was so scared to use the computer.I felt stuck with technology, but thanks to you I feel confident, to navigate the internet with the tutorials,tips and tricks.
Another superb video. Frankly though Win 11 is not a new OS... They have a cheek charging money for it. It is merely a crippled overlay applied to Win 10. I am watching videos in order to try an regain some of the lost functionality.
Wait, what? Never knew that I was actually being spied all this time. But I guess Kevin the Legend always has solutions to our problems. Your audio is insane. iI guess the Sennheiser MKH 50 is pretty cool.
Windows 8.1 was the last Operating System from Microsoft. Windows 10, and onwards, are Surveillance Systems to collect data on the end users. Windows 10 began the microsoft spying, Windows 11 defaults users cameras to always on ... it's well past the ''creepy'' level, considering students often have PCs in their own rooms. By default, Windows 11 operates in direct violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Microsoft also provides all your information and data to the US gov just like every tech company does. Low tech is the better tech, no tech is the best tech. - Former US Army Sgt
The issue with that statement is that the USofA is not the world, it is just a small part of the world and as such the statement is not correct. The information collected from a PC in New Zealand and say Norway is not to be shared outside their countries. The end-user may choose which data they are willing to share, by disabling certain services. But they also state that the operating system experiences might be hampered by the disabling of said services. Apple does exactly the same, though they do it in a "secure" way (biggest BS if ever) Linux also reports back, no matter what people say, as soon as you do an apt-get or a yum or whatever you do to keep your computer "secure" the data has already been collected. Just think of your computer as a huge billboard for advertisements. It would be interesting to see how many clock cycles are used, per operating system, to gather and distribute this information.
@@aelaan12 I was with Army Intelligence, then rangers, then JAG, I cannot openly state as to how I know the gov collects all data as it would be a crime. Yet i know they do, the United States Gov collects all data (even foreign users) that data then gets ran through multiple algorithms searching for key words, threats, targeted info, etc etc. Then is archived. The US Gov spies on all gov/countries (as both Snowden and Wikileaks has revealed). The world of digital information we now live in is controlled by gov. Take Amazon products for example, all amazon products (fire stick, fire tv, Alexa, etc) have mics they listen and record any and everything they hear, that data is shared with the CIA and NSA. I'm actually putting together a video which I will be posting illustrating Amazons spying. TV's come with mic and camera, they connect to the internet now and do the same. No tech company in the US can operate here without agreeing to share data with the Gov. We now have google and RU-vid banning the let's go Brandon music video, claiming it has misinformation about medical vs and so they banned it. When in reality its anti biden and anything anti biden is getting shut down under weird nonsense bans. Any country in the world that has the capability to monitor and control data, does it. I spent the better part of my life working for gov. The only reason I retired is I was not ok with where this gov was headed. If you just 10% of the stuff the gov had the military alone working on, you would shit yourself.
@Timothy And you clearly are hilarious in your 100% inaccurate judgements considering I am a Microsoft Partner, an IT Pro who owns an IT consulting & support company, which is a Microsoft Partner company, so I probably, clearly know far more than you thought I did. And maybe more than some people think they know.
@@Drew1903SG You make a purchase, that card info gets stored, you have a IP address that info gets stored, your online activity (what sites you visit, how long your there, etc, etc.) Hets stored. All information the gov wants from a company, that company shares. 2 such examples of this, 1) Edward Snowden's leaks. 2) pandora's papers (all that banking info on the wealthy storing their money in offshore accounts to avoid taxes. The means of which were gained illegally, yet readily available to the public. Then you have the Ca terrorist who the gov paid 1 million to a hacker to get into an apple iphone. The gov employs hackers, spies, etc. Etc.
*In recent years, the microsoft has become more aggressive on end user data collection.* These settings are of no use. Since Microsoft's windows "AUTOMATIC" update will roll back or will Modify privacy settings.
@@KevinStratvert Dude...Microcrap couldn't care any less. There have BEEN plenty of bad PR releases about this exact problem and Microsoft has basically DODGED any real interviews about it..OR just given political beat around bush responses that really DIDN'T address such an asinine problem on their end. They've PROVEN more and more these recent 10 years that they WANT to control their end users PCs more and more trying to convince their end users that really it ISN'T their PC...they're just leasing it although they paid to OWN the computer....windows is a leasing-software model....always has been for the past 10+ years easily.
I'm not opposed to companies collecting data that can improve products, but it's how personal they make it. If they could anonymise the data and abide by some ethical standards, like academics do when conducting research, people probably wouldn't get so upset. There's no reason they can't understand trends by geographic location, age range and so forth without pinpointing it to specific individuals. That's the upsetting bit. Although, if my laptop ever gets stolen, I would be grateful for the exact GPS.
They can understand trends by geographic location and age range. But knowing every detail about every individual person makes more money, and that's all they care about after all. They value money over privacy. If they find a way to make more money than they currently are by giving us more privacy, they'd do it in a heart beat. And they'd only be doing it for the money, not the privacy.
There are law in many which force companies to share user data without any questions or any notice to the user, you might argue that for security purposes, and for a developed country like US it's all right, but in developing ,full of curroption , govt often target there opposition's personal life ,and manipulate journalists,
'I''m not opposed to companies collecting data that can improve products, but it's how personal they make i" My only issue with this is that the "product" that I want is an OS. Not an Advertising provider or a "make sure you are safe and doing the right thing" big brother. IF I want to sync my data with some other product that they own, I want to set up my data for that product exclusively and only when I want to do it. I want to buy a product, not be the product.
The fact of your statement is nothing new. This has BEEN going on since the first launching of Windows XP fall of 2001. You can thank two main idiots for basically LEGALIZING the act of Microsoft ( and many other companies worldwide btw) disrespecting your 4th amendment constitutional rights....: bush junior and john ashcroft with the creation of the unholy abomination known as the ( Un) Patriot Act. launched within the same time frame xp did in the same year
@2:40 "...when I clear it, it'll remove all of this information from Microsoft's servers" (referring to your internet and computer usage). Kevin, please validate your assertion. Please provide the source code for both the Windows 11 portion that sends the delete request to Microsoft's servers, and also show the source code of the servers, depicting that they honor your delete requests. Alternatively, please provide a link to an official Microsoft announcement where they clearly state that they will delete 100% of the data that you are requesting that they delete -- and hopefully such an announcement will be signed by a Microsoft executive, and not simply singed generically by Microsoft -- leaving the author anonymous. ----- @6:04 "If you turn this off, you'll continue to see ads. But they just won't be targeted to your interests" The above changes what ads are delivered to you. The above does not change Microsoft's data collection. For example, if you leave it off, and months later turn it on, then magically you will get ads targeted to your interests, because Microsoft has been collecting it all along. This is an example of Microsoft being deceptive. ----- @9:39 "Perhaps the most private browser -- you can use the Brave browser" That is a browser that offers better privacy. But for the most privacy, that would be TOR browser. ----- There was a time when reputable companies made their default settings as "opted out", and the customer had to affirmatively "opt in" (and the endless legal jargon for using Windows is not a reasonable excuse for opting in the world -- if it were, then Microsoft would not rely on 99.999999% of the world not reading the legal jargon for installing and using Windows). Everyone should be opt'ed out of every single data collection tool, by default. Everyone should have to actively turn on each data collection tool, as they deem appropriate. Microsoft knows that nearly no one would do this, so Microsoft sneaks it in via the back door, knowing that 99.999999% of the world neither reads the legal jargon, nor understands that legal jargon, nor has any concept of the level of data collection taking place. 99.9999999999% of Windows users do not watch these tech videos. They have no clue that this is taking place, and Microsoft knows this, and Microsoft takes advantage of this. How would you like it if your microwave oven spied on everything you do, within its range of listening and viewing? And you did not know that your microwave oven was doing this, because you did not read the manual's version of War and Peace. If Microsoft was collecting data on you, out in the open, then videos like this would not have "Spying" in the title. You would not want to live next door to a peeping Tom and his telescope. Well, Microsoft is a peeping Tom on an unprecedented level. Cheers!
I feel the same way. Call me paranoid (which is fine) but if *I* were Microsoft, as soon as someone chose to delete their data, I would move that data "off to the side" such that it wouldn't be accessible to them anymore but wouldn't necessarily be destroyed. I think of a physical garbage can. When I empty my garbage can, the garbage goes in the large can outside the house. Once the garbage truck picks it up, I have no clue where it goes even though I no longer have access to it. You make great points and I view this the same as you. *sigh*
@@nana-mamalife2886 If you use Windows, there exists the possibility that Microsoft could be collecting data on what you do via your VPN service. It is Windows that is the foundation for running the VPN service. So Windows can capture everything that you do. If Windows is not capturing what you do via a VPN service, then you are transferring "trust" to the VPN service. They can see and log everything that you do when using their service. They might promote that they never save logs. You cannot verify whether or not that is true. A court order could force them to save logs, and that could included a gag order, prohibiting the VPN service from letting their customers know. Or, the VPN service could just lie about keeping logs. There is no way to know whether or not to trust them. The only safe (but never 100% safe) way to use the internet is via a free, open-source operating system, such as TAILS or Qubes. But doing so will be a frustrating experience, because many web sites will not accept connections via TOR (which those operating systems use) and countless web sites will not work with Java Script disabled (and you must disable it to ensure privacy and security). Also, using TOR is slow (and you have to use TOR if you want privacy). A VPN service is probably better than using Windows to directly connect to everything. And a VPN service will allow you to access information based in countries that would deny your requests from your current location. A VPN service is a viable option. But like everything else, their service and trustworthiness varies from on VPN vendor to the next VPN vendor.
@@NoEgg4u Wow! Thanks so much for the thorough explanation. I guess I will stick with my VPN service...at least it's the lesser of the two evils I suppose.
1st you must have Windows 10 Pro and virtualization must be enabled in the BIOS. Open Hyper-V Manager. Click Create and follow the prompts.. give the Virtual machine a Name, assign an amount of RAM to it, set the size for the virtual hard drive. Tell it to install from a Win11 ISO wherever you have that saved. You will need a license for it, same as a regular installation... Either have to buy one OR install a valid other OS & then upgrade to Win11.
"Tuh-dayy" I realized that most of my data is being sent to Microsoft😱! But thanks to Kevin I learnt a solution on how to prevent it. I am fine with Microsoft taking my location because Satya Nadella might meet me😂 Just like you, your thumbnail is also fantastic and goes well with the title🔥!! Can you make an updated video on your setup and gear? I will be looking forward to it...
There is a problem happening with the taskbar in Windows 11. When I am hovering over a taskbar icon like the Wi-Fi or Battery or Input Methods it shows a dialog box. But when I keep the cursor on the blank portion of the taskbar after that where there is no icon, then also it is showing a dialog box at wrong places. Please help me with this bug.I have tried: 1. Restarting the Windows Explorer Process from Task Manager 2. BIOS Update 3. Run SFC /SCANNOW command in Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell 4. Used Command Prompt command reg delete HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\IrisService /f && shutdown -r -t 0 5. Drained residual power. 6. Uninstalled ELAN Input Device driver 7. Checked for Windows Updates
Kevin I am having a problem with getting a quiz to function correctly using Google slides. How do I save it do I can put it on RU-vid? Can you please help me out
I HAVE ONE QUESTION... IF MY DATA IS BEING SENT TO MICROSOFT CAN A HACKER IN BETWEEN [WHILE MY DATA IS BEING SENT TO MICROSOFT]... CAN HACKERS ACCESS THE DATA IN BETWEEN
Kevin, as always your information is great. My only thought is for us none geek people (seniors), how can we decipher this information in plain non-geek language. We seniors are very cautious about our information getting out there will all the scams going on these days. Kevin, can you do a vid for us seniors who are not geeks? Thanks, a very old senior.
I am a senior AND an IT Pro. This guy and others spewing rubbish make people unnecessarily paranoid & nervous. MS, Win10 & Win11 DO NOT collect personal data or info... do not care about or bother with anybody's correspondence, photos, docs, etc, etc. This crap people try to feed you is BS & untrue. Relax & enjoy your Windows computer knowing you are safe & protected thanks to all the security built into it❗😀
@@Drew1903SG really? Really? C'mon, it's 2021. I'm not trying to attack you, but as a fellow IT professional (cyber security with a specialization in database management and penetration) I can confirm your being spied on. However, the overall intentions are more or less not nefarious. But, still.
I had disabled most of the data grabbing features when I had installed windows 11 2 weeks ago, but I now found out that there were even more data grabbing apps which I had to disable.
Kevin, you should realize that 80% of viewers watching this video are still using Windows 10. You have abandoned Windows 10 users even though Microsoft hasn't. Make a tutorial about Windows 10 also (not spying though)
@@Drew1903SG there is and you cant turn it off even if you like to, if youre not willing to stop updates and sending data, disable calculator, clock synchronization, keylogger. You have to disable many features that can pretty much break the system sometimes. Not updating, something you cant really opt out of ? You know, when youre not using the newest upgrade, espionage loses some value, since youre not testing their new thing for them with your hardware. For example, I set my time further 5 years into 2026, put out the internet cable, told the system to wait one month for the next update. Then I reverted to 2021 and now it says it will check for updates in 5 years instead of next month. Without using programs that disabled MS so-called security, their firewall holes through which they spy ? theres much less going out to that criminal enterprise. browsers spy on you as well. Those entitities do not respect your privacy, they really value it by selling all the date they can get away with. And on top of that, they dont pay you for your data that they are stealing from you. I have had 10 months no update so far and the system works fine. If they make you afraid of security threat, well, imagine them having your data stolen .... but it is already sold. Just like all the social media I know of.
@@CrucialConflict. No electricity at all. No plumbing either. Say what you want about modern society, we are all definitely better off than our cave dwelling ancestors were.
As a wannabe scripter - its very easy to create a GUI that shows a button on or off, but the code behind it still runs anyway. The only true way to disable telemetry is to block the MS URLs in your router or pihole
Questions... Can you create both a local and "online" - for lack of a better word - account? If so, can you use the online account to access the MS Store to download software you want and then install it onto your local account? I'm sure you'd have to use a thumb drive, but that's no big deal.
@@ramborums There is heaps of functionality & abilities not available with a Local Acc't, including syncing across devices. Use Local just only to set up a machine for a client & once delivered it is switched to their MS Acc't for their (daily) use.
But you see...they have to be authoritarians otherwise the "evil guys" that don't want to control you may take over. Also i'm pretty sure there is a word for when the state and companies merge....
I was surprised by my privacy dashboard as it doesn't seem to know a lot about me. Then I saw it's only collecting data when you use MS Edge. Does anybody ever use Edge? 😄
Bro please can you please make a video on microsoft store issue in windows 11 when I open microsoft store and search for a app and opening to download it is crashing can you make a video about it please
No, he quit MSFT several months ago to be a full time RU-vidr. He made a vid about it when he separated from MSFT. He used to very clearly state he worked there at the start of his older vids before breaking away.
Hi Kevin I run windows 11 yesterday the cursor was moving on its own after I restarted it became proper what does this mean like how did it move on its own
Thank you for these helpful tips! Windows is not letting me make some of your recommended changes without signing in to a Microsoft account. I am using a local account. Is there a way around it?
@@KevinStratvert Yes that might be it. I think the biggest downside of using a local account was losing the access to windows store. But if it works without any problem then switching to a local account is a good thing.
Guys it looks like there is an option in local group policy editor that disables diagnostic data being sent to MS, looks like it will only work for windows 11 enterprise, Server, & Education editions tho, go to local group policy editor>administrative templates>windows components> Data collection & preview builds> Allow diagnostic Data> enable it then an option box will pop up select Diagnostic Data Off, then hit OK and restart your computer, Now when you go look in Settings>Privacy & Security> Diagnostics & Feedback, Under diagnostic data it should say "Your organization prevents sending diagnostic data to ms"
I just using a power shell script from another youtube which auto does this and more. I have it on auto run after ea windows update so im good. He's name was Chris tech or something
Very nice presentation! I like that Kevin always has a smile on his face but stays professional and serious. The information in this video itself was very well chosen. 🙂
It's pretty easy to do, uninstall Windows and put another OS on the computer. Seriously I'm tried of jumping through hoops to configure things that frankly are more about securing what information gets sent out about me then the actual hardware on my system. It was easier to update a driver for my AMD card in Linux Mint by having a new kernel install from the update applications GUI interface then it is finding all the telemetry and other settings to switch off. Never really had that kind of problem before with Windows 7 on down and since Windows 11 really doesn't let me do local accounts no matter how much I try I switched to Linux. The ironic thing is I found it easier to install Minecraft on Linux then Windows, the Windows version doesn't seem to have a simple download installer that works anymore. I have to go in to the Microsoft Store just to try and get it. With Linux I pull down the file and it installs without issue. Best of all, no advertisements in my software.
Depends on what you're trying to animate. Microsoft PowerPoint is an easy place to start with animations: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3uJd-_JpG1w.html
