windows 10 keylogger Reddit Users Are Upset About Windows 10 "Keylogger”, Thread Details Steps To Turn The Settings Off

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As we reported some weeks ago, the upcoming Creators Update will introduce better privacy controls for consumers, improving the Out of Box experience along the way. The update should hopefully make Windows 10 an OS that all consumers can really trust, as unfortunately the built-in telemetry (which users can adjust but not completely turn off) has caused a lot of controversy over the past couple of years.

 

Yesterday, a new Reddit thread addressing a Windows 10 “keylogger” became a hot topic on the social network, with already 1,800 comments at the time of our writing (via The Daily Express). In the comments, many Reddit users complain about the standard Windows 10 privacy settings, especially a feature that tracks “your typing and handwriting info to improve typing and writing services” and is turned on by default.

 

While you could argue that this predictive text feature is not really a keylogger, nor is it really new, although the Reddit thread brings the subject to the forefront. Users who are concerned about it can easily turn it off. To do that, you’ll have to open Settings > Privacy > General and uncheck “”Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future.”

 

However, the real issue here seems to be that the feature can be turned back on in some cases. According to several comments on the thread, this could be the result of Windows updates which can change some of your setting without telling you anything. Reddit user wtfxstfu shared “Seriously, that’s some s***. I turn off everything on install. Just looked. It’s on. So dumb.” Another one nicknamed monedula added “Can confirm. also turned everything off at install, and this setting was on just now. This is evil.”

 

It’s not the first time that we see complaints about Windows 10 settings being changed after installing Windows 10 updates, and it’s not clear if the issue is affecting all users or if it will be fixed in the Creators Update.

 

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[steven36]

I seen it at reddit a few days ago,  RS2  let you turn this off  when you install it now so its never on but we knew about this before Windows 10 was ever released  in 2014 .

 

Alot of people thought is was just going to in the  1st preview builds but it's still in it today if you're dumb  enough too not disable it there's been numbers of topics about it here about it and how too turn it off . So how is this news besides some privacy geeks  got there feathers ruffled  over some old news ?  It's been making the news since 2014 every year at lest once or twice and were just getting a option to turn it off when we install it.

 

And the only reason we got a option was because the EU Government threatened Microsoft over Windows and there cloud platform  same reason Microsoft was in court for years so the USA Government could not get emails stored in Ireland .  .If you use Microsoft or Google services they already know everything about you and Google lost in court they had to hand that data over it's on appeal .