{"id":9392,"date":"2018-11-28T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=9392"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:27:25","slug":"534-ways-that-windows-10-tracks-you-from-german-cyberintelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/534-ways-that-windows-10-tracks-you-from-german-cyberintelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"534 Ways that Windows 10 Tracks You – From German Cyber Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The German Federal Cyberintelligence Agency BSI has released a report<\/a> (PDF warning) (sections 1.2 and later are in English) that details the myriad ways that Windows 10 tracks users, and shows that unless you have an enterprise version of Windows, the various privacy settings make almost no difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Enterprise Versions of Windows 10 Can Shut it Off<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Normal versions of Windows only have three different levels of telemetry. The BSI found that the difference between Basic and Full tracking is 503 and 534 tracking processes. The only real reduction in telemetry comes from enterprise versions of Windows which can use an additional setting, \u201csecurity\u201d for their telemetry, which reduces the number of active trackers to 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the First Deep Dive Into the Processes and Windows Registry for Telemetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The analysis is highly detailed, and maps out the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) system, how Windows stores the telemetry data, how and when the data is uploaded to Microsoft servers, and the difference in the various levels of telemetry settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also goes as far as to show where the settings to modify the individual logging components are controlled in the Windows registry, and how they initialize in Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some interesting facts from the document:<\/p>\n\n\n\n