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HP Is Secretly Installing Telemetry Bloatware On Your PC- This Is How You Can Remove It

Several HP customers around the world report that HP began distributing “Telemetry Bloatware” on their laptops without informing them or asking for permission. An application marked as spyware is, in fact, a Windows telemetry bloatware distributed by HP, called the HP Touchpoint Analytics Client, which was first identified on November 15. According to various online […]

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Visual Studio 2015 Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into C++ Binaries

Microsoft says it’s for debugging, not spying. Internet users have pulled out the pitchforks and are once again at odds with Microsoft regarding telemetry data, but this time around it’s because the company updated Visual Studio 2015, which is now adding secret telemetry code in the C++ binaries compiled by every developer. The issue surfaced in […]

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