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Ah, "calling home" is often used in this context to mean... 05/14/2020, 07:02:43

Ramillies writes: ... "spying on the users of a program or a website and saving those data on your servers", most usually in order to monetize the data later (by offering the so called "personalized ads"). If you want to read more about what is phoned home from Win 10, you can peruse the linked article (a randomly DuckDuckGo'ed* one). * DuckDuckGo is a search engine that doesn't track you and actually seems to be really caring about your privacy (not only repeating that phrase ad nauseam while blatantly spying on you, like Google, M$, Facebook,.....). They also have a nice blog with lots of posts about retaining your privacy as much as possible. Related link: http://www.howtogeek.com/224616/30-ways-windows-10-phones-home/

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Thank you very much indeed. - Peter2 ( Fri 15-May-20 05:56:23 ) +1 You do very well to be cautious on the Internet. - Ramillies ( Fri 15-May-20 06:48:50 ) +1 And here I thought I was the only one. . . - The Elf ( Fri 15-May-20 13:43:23 ) +1 Well, if I (as a physicist, or better put, physics student) haven't loved math, I couldn't have been doing physics at all! - Ramillies ( Sat 16-May-20 16:40:06 ) +1 Amen! And the reason I never took physics. . . - The Elf ( Sun 17-May-20 05:21:04 ) +1 I started off my career as a chemist - Peter2 ( Wed 20-May-20 08:45:18 ) +1 Practice does make perfect - Ramillies ( Fri 22-May-20 00:40:55 )