> I doubt people can articulate exactly how telemetry is detrimental to them.
It’s not hard to articulate. Here’s Der Spiegel’s 2013 reporting on the NSA’s use of Windows telemetry for passive observation of targets:
> The automated crash reports are a "neat way" to gain "passive access" to a machine, … [this] provides valuable insights into problems with a targeted person's computer and, thus, information on security holes that might be exploitable for planting malware or spyware on the unwitting victim's computer.
> In one internal graphic, [the NSA] replaced the text of Microsoft's original error message with one of their own reading, "This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint system to gather detailed information and better exploit your machine."
It’s not hard to articulate. Here’s Der Spiegel’s 2013 reporting on the NSA’s use of Windows telemetry for passive observation of targets:
> The automated crash reports are a "neat way" to gain "passive access" to a machine, … [this] provides valuable insights into problems with a targeted person's computer and, thus, information on security holes that might be exploitable for planting malware or spyware on the unwitting victim's computer.
> In one internal graphic, [the NSA] replaced the text of Microsoft's original error message with one of their own reading, "This information may be intercepted by a foreign sigint system to gather detailed information and better exploit your machine."