Microsoft has announced a public preview of a new option for enterprise customers to control Windows 10 diagnostic data (aka “telemetry”). The program is of particular interest to customers in the European Union and the European Economic Area, who are governed by strict data protection and privacy regulations under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Currently, Microsoft customers in these regions have two options for managing diagnostic data collected by Windows 10 and sent to Microsoft’s servers. They can allow Microsoft to be the controller of that data, potentially allowing personal information to be transferred across international borders, or they can opt-out of diagnostic data collection completely.
