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Microsoft collects your friends' names so it can spell their names correctly when you use speech-to-text or related features.

On the other hand, Windows 10 collects these data by default, according to their privacy statements.

XP most certainly does not phone home with anywhere near the amount of info that Win10 collects, as this article shows.

Either MS collects too much data, or they are tone-deaf to the market and aren't keeping up with cutting edge features.

Facebook collects and keeps data about people who do not have an active account.

And don't forget windows comes with Defender installed, which collects user metrics out-of-the-box.

I guess this is good for people who are worried about what Google collects about them.

I prefer the Book of Sand, which collects an infinite selection of the most legible pages from the Library of Babel.

The company collects it, but it's collected from the customer.

One explanation is that Facebook collects its users contact lists.

The massive amount of data that Google and the NSA collects could be put forth in an effort to study the mechanics of ethics and personalities.

> The fund collects and invests proceeds from the extraction of oil and minerals in the state.

We also know that that Siri collects and transmits a bunch of this "non-personal" information to a 3rd party for analysis.

The government collects the "church tax", but neither creates it, nor keeps it.

That's what makes the question such a trap for candidates: it's intrinsically unimportant (the data you pretend it collects simply isn't present for most candidates), but the "wrong" answer can be very harmful.

Here's some further information [1]: Command and Data Handling The command and data handling system – a radiation-hardened 12-megahertz Mongoose V processor guided by intricate flight software – is the spacecraft's "brain." The processor distributes operating commands to each subsystem, collects and processes instrument data, and sequences information sent back to Earth.