Microsoft to Categorize User Data Collection as ‘Required’ and ‘Optional’
Microsoft will categorize user data as required or optional, document it publicly and submit a biannual report describing changes to required data collection, Corporate Vice President Julie Brill blogged Tuesday. Required data collection will include data “necessary to making our…
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products and services work as expected by the customer, or to help ensure their security,” Brill said. That includes search query terms, IP addresses, device types and diagnostic data, and consumers have the option to opt out of collection in certain instances. Optional means collection of data not “essential to the product or service experience,” she wrote. That includes, for example, data about photos inserted into Word documents. The biannual report defining data collection will be published at privacy.microsoft.com.