Security → Windows 10 automatically sends parents detailed dossier of their............

..children's info!

»www.independent.co.uk/li ··· 226.html

Windows 10 sends a weekly “activity update” on childrens’ internet browsing and computer history to parents, by default and without telling anyone. The feature could be dangerous as well as embarrassing, users have pointed out, allowing parents to watch everything their children do on the computer.

The operating system sends a weekly note that includes a list of websites children have visited, how many hours per day they have spent on the computer, and for how long they have used their favourite apps, according to reports.

The feature appears to be turned on by default for family accounts — not notifying either children or their parents that they are being spied on — and was reported by parents who hadn’t asked for and weren’t aware of activating the feature themselves.
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Please use the "yellow (IM) envelope" to contact me and please leave the URL intact.

The more I hear about what MS has done with Win 10, the more and more I'm determined to stick with Win 7...

What the hell happened to privacy?

Sure, that's a nice feature for parents, but don't enable it by default. Second, make sure the user setting up Win 10 has to read all about it in one of those annoying popups...
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Call me skeptical of this article since its devoid of any real information other than twitter posts. But it would seem one can easily solve this tracking by not using a Microsoft.com account. Or to disable (if its possible) the "family" feature of the Microsoft.com account. It would seem this isn't solely a Windows 10 issue.

Turn off Microsoft family settings

It appears one can remove/disable/turn off the "family safety" monitoring software in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1:
How do I remove Family Safety?

I'd be interested in more detail on the specific enabling process, but Installation of Windows 10 pretty much steers the user into using a Microsoft account.

There seems to be way too much logging and 'sharing' set by default unless the user knows to go through several steps to remove or disable the stuff.

This whole new philosophy flies in the face of best security practices of not sharing, enabling services or opening ports unless they are needed.
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While the OS may induce one to either apply for or use a current MS account, the OS works just fine with a local account. They just make the process of setting up Windows 10 without an MS account a bit difficult if one isn't paying attention to what is on each setup screen. Just one of several online posting detailing how to setup Windows 10 without using an MS account: Install Windows 10 without a Microsoft Account

Short of going to Linux most other OS's are going the cloud, data mining, telemetry route to maximize obtaining profitable data from the end user of their products as the market and customer's habits evolve and change. Everyone is flipping out over Microsoft's Windows 10 doing what has been done for years by earlier versions of Windows, Android, iOS and even Mac OS X to a lesser extent. May not make it right but it is the reality going forward as things evolve and change with computers and mobile devices.

You guys apparently don't have kids, this is one of the best features about Windows 10, the parental controls are great and easy to setup and use.

You have to be a FOOL to allow your child to have unfettered access to the internet. Your a child..... you have NO privacy from your parents and if you think otherwise you aren't being a responsible parent.

Such features can be very useful, to be sure. But go overboard with them, as I've known some parents to do, and before you know it your kids (who may be as tech savvy as your are, perhaps even more so) will probably find a way around them and become quite good at covering their tracks, too. So while you're sitting there thinking you've got everything under control, your kids may have you completely snowed.

Seriously? So I guess I should just let my kids do anything they want since they are probably going to circumvent anything I setup to protect them. Wow, logical reasoning.

Nope, just based on real world experience, my friend. For example, my wife is a cop's daughter, and she said that the other cops' kids who were the most adept at getting up to mischief while hiding it from their own fathers were generally the ones whose dads watched them the closest and tried to control them the most and thought they had things under control. (They were really good at not getting caught, in other words. I could tell similar stories from my own youth.) And I have a co-worker who thought he had his home network so locked down that his kids and even his wife couldn't go anywhere on the internet without his approval, then was flabbergasted to find out that they had just acquired other means of access, sometimes through friends or through tips from friends.

BTW, jumping directly from "not going overboard" to "do anything they want" kind of shows a problem with the old thinking box up top, so you might what to get that checked out.

As an addendum to what I said above, my daughter has recently informed me that one of her new college friends has an ex-boyfriend who is trouble with a capital T. I won't go into the details, but they're pretty awful and came directly from the girl herself, with extensive independent corroboration. From what's being said about him, by rights her ex should probably be sitting in prison right now, maybe for life.

They've been apart for quite a while, which is a good thing, and AFAIK they haven't had any contact lately. But now that she's living away on her own at college, and he lives and works nearby, she wants to contact him and get back together with him! Which is just insane on the surface of it - until you stop to consider that her parents (especially her father) have generally micromanaged her entire life, and watched her every move. So now that she's older and mostly out from under that, at least for the time being, she wants to make her own decisions and do her own thing, no matter how poor those decisions may be. And getting back with her ex may be her way of rubbing her parents' noses in it.

Wait, what just happened?

Do you have an actual question - or are you asking me to spill the intimate details of the life of a young college girl who I've only actually met once myself?

Yes

Unlike real diarrhea, someone's Anti-Microsoft diarrhea never ends.