and then there's the hackers worldwide who would see it a challenge to break into MS' data banks for 'useful' information. Nope, given this latest debacle with Apple being forced by the court to unlock a phone for the FBI, I have little to no faith in tech companies being able to deny any 'interested parties' access to whatever collected/stored data they may have.

so deep in fact, only a handful of experts have thus far been able to discover. According to one article on the matter, this was Microsoft's intent all along, to be 'transparent' with its data collection methods on one hand, by placing them in an easy to find 'privacy folder, and covertly running another set of data mining methods deep beneath the surface. Thing is Dave, while the obvious snooping abilities on the surface can be easily turned off, there are 'phone home' devices built into the core of Win 10.and they can't be turned off without entirely borking yout PC. But really, is there any true privacy anywhere. Problem is we all read and hear about all those concerns but not much mention as to how easy it is to turn them off.

However you have the option to turn off all those things and it's not that hard.

There are other reasons I won't move over to 10, like privacy concerns

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