We had earlier reported that Microsoft EULA has some serious and ambiguousprivacy related clausesbut this one takes the cake.
One such instance is users OneDrive data.
They noticed that Windows 10 will periodically send data to a Microsoft server named ssw.live.com.
This server seems to be used for OneDrive and some other Microsoft services.
Ars says that the request for this file appears to contain a random machine ID that persists across reboots.
Disabling these services for those who dont want to use them should really disable them, said Bright.
And its not at all clear that Windows 10 is doing that right now.
We had very much anticipate such issues with Windows 10.
A vast majority of our readers said that they were not updating to Windows 10 because of such issues.
Microsoft could be losing on potential customers due to such issues.
source: www.techworm.net