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Wait what’s this about monitoring and record By files and secrets?

Also I think you might be mistaken about the Xbox DRM, they mentioned they’d be requiring always online prior to the launch of the Xbox one but as far as I know they never followed through after all the backlash they received.

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I think echelon is referring to the "Automatic Sample Submission" option that is enabled by default in Windows Defender. It will upload exes and dlls without asking. It can also upload documents, but it should prompt the user first.

Windows telemetry is also a black box, but they admit to collecting some browsing history.

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