A service like Cortana constantly gathers information about you, but the good news is that you can edit permissions. Even your Windows 10 computer camera may be spying on you without you even being aware. If you want to limit the data various apps and services collect, we suggest you check out these Windows 10 privacy apps and choose the one that best suits your needs. As if this wasn’t enough, Microsoft is now caught in the middle of another privacy scandal. This time, the leading role is taken by the company’s Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler, in which users have discovered two hidden codes that add telemetry function calls to binaries as they are compiled: telemetry_main_invoke_trigger and telemetry_main_return_trigger. Coder became extremely angry after they detected the codes, especially because Microsoft didn’t mention anything about their existence in its documentation. Steve Carroll, Development Manager for the Visual C++ team, claims that the telemetry function is entirely innocent, and users have nothing to worry about. Microsoft promises to remove these events in Update 3 and also offers a solution for users to disable telemetry function calls in the current Visual Studio 2015 C++ compiler version. To disable this dependency, you can add notelemetry.obj to your linker command line. What’s your take on this event? Do you think this was only a slip from Microsoft, or is there more to it than meets the eye? RELATED STORIES YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT:
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