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Telemetry is this close to being apparatus for spying; a court order (secret or otherwise) could strip whatever anonymization MS is doing, say, for specific IPs or even whole regions by geography. Poof: keystrokes in real-time, available to state actors. Wouldn't that be grand?

Developed capacity may not equal intent, but if you can be ordered to do secret work and make it so anyway, the distinction is irrelevant.



If a court order could do that, why do you think they couldn't just enable it remotely too?


Which is why, if you really care about privacy, you can't trust software you can't audit.


They could, but it would be possible for you to notice, by looking at network traffic.




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