All diagnostic data Microsoft collects during the use of Office applications and services is pseudonymized, as defined in ISO/IEC 19944:2017, section 8.3.3.”Īccording to this Microsoft article ( here) this is what the basic data is: “Diagnostic data may contain “personal data” as defined by Article 4 of the European GDPR, but it does not contain your name, your email address, or any content from your files. Launch the tool to review the diagnostic data that was sent to Microsoft.Īccording to this Microsoft Support article ( here) Download the Diagnostic Data Viewer tool from the Microsoft App Store Enable the Viewing of Diagnostic Data in Windows 10 (full documentation is here) If you want to see what type of information is being sent to Microsoft, Windows 10 now includes the ability to view the diagnostic data by downloading a tool called the Diagnostic Data Viewer. However, according to Microsoft, this data may contain “personal data” as defined by Article 4 of the European GDPR (more on that below) and therefore our friends in Europe have asked for guidance on how to disable this diagnostic data from being sent to Microsoft.
I have never put much thought into disabling diagnostic data from being sent to Microsoft, because I’ve always given them the benefit of the doubt that they benefit from using this data to identify faulty drivers and things that cause reliability issues in Windows.
