What does Microsoft do with my contacts list?

HFM47,

You are brilliant - really I'm not kidding. The way you have dogged down on this question is superb.  I had just the same brakes-on-hard moment when I saw some company wanted my contact list. I wasn't even sure if they meant my Outlook contact list or something connected to my Windows account. By the sound of it they do want my Outlook contact list and "they". aren't even Microsoft.   Were do these crackerjacks get off? And it's not like - Oh, they are a Microsoft approved company, they must be good guys. I made the mistake of downloading a Microsoft recommended driver update program from a company called Slimware. It took me more than an hour to de-Slimeware my computer. This stuff was like malware, it copied itself into every nook and cranny.

Microsoft, you need to listen to people like HFM47. Once the trust barrier is broken it is ever so hard to repair. Don't you realize that when Microsoft recommends a company, that companies actions directly affect the reputation of Microsoft?

video would most likely be if you are using gesturing and audio, would be references that were started with, hey Cortana

yea, and who knows what that audio and video they,re collecting is going and what it is being used for "in the name of testing" terms of use affect us, not the entity ussuing the TOS

@dozrguy

I am glad to see that you are a big supporter of self programming and working the kinks out with the software containing millions of lines of code which is what is required if Microsoft did not have full access to the software being tested by people volunteering in order to make Windows work correctly. I wish I personally had that drive because then I would just switch over to open source software and write my own operating system. But people like myself who don't have the time nor want other people with not so good intentions having access to the source code to take advantage of backdoors once released into a production environment if I happened to miss it.

For those whom are wanting to know why certain settings aren't turned off or changeable to certain degrees, its mainly because Microsoft wants to make a finished product where everything works. So applications like Skype, when I make a call and it doesn't complete it or that my contacts aren't pulling up, or it just wont open. Microsoft is collecting information in regards to that info instead of the tester looking at technical lines of code and then running through that code to find out if its a driver issue, permissions issue, bad line of code, or something else that developers developing the software can just pin point to resolve and fix in a timely fashion. But dozrguy is right.. if you do not want Microsoft to have that access, I would suggest waiting to retail  version is released where the information is usually set to send when an application crashes on the bugs not fixed because before the final release they will be data-mining your PC to check for errors, problems, security flaws, and bugs that upon release should be fixed if caught. Its also the reason we aren't working with a finalized product and why there are different builds that address information that has been data-mined that reports errors with functionality, rather than just relying on people emailing or sending feedback when it does crash.

For most companies this is done with a sending of error report and with the agreed upon EULA which dozrguy also would have agreed upon when signing up for Insider Program and installing windows 10, though may not have paid attention. So all in all, if you do not want to participate in Microsoft gathering information to make the windows 10 release better in your favor, please please please, uninstall and go back to your previous version of windows like dozrguy. But also do not get upset when something that might have worked better for you and others that wasn't addressed is not in the release because you did not want to participate in this game changing experience of Microsoft once again listening to its users.

Thank you :O)