Using the Express installation gives away the store in regard to privacy as does the majority of Recommended settings and Microsoft steers you towards them. There's an option to Customize settings somewhere on each page, in the fine print, perhaps at the bottom of the page, that you might have to scroll down to find; but, all of the sharing can be shut down. While I did that during installation, it can be done post installation through Settings as well. It's the same with selecting apps to install and permissions.

I turned Wi-Fi sharing off: I left Wi-Fi hotspots access on. I want to be able to keep browsing and I know not to send sensitive information over unsecured public access Wi-Fi connections. Hotspots access would have to be turned off if for some reason I didn't want my location tracked.

The default settings are for the masses whose lives are open books. For them and for those who additionally trust their contacts with access to their Wi-Fi connections, there are conveniences to be had.

It peer-to-peers windows updates.

That's one of many problems with Microsoft. For those who find that they can't live with them; or, work around them there's:

START->Settings->Update & Security->Recovery->Go back to Windows 8.1->Get started

(or whatever previous Windows version you had prior to installing WIN10)

That Recovery option will be available for a month after the upgrade.

Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do. I suppose that was inevitable. Data, especially personal (private) data is big business.

Here’s how to opt out from 10's more egregious espionage.

" Egregious Espionage".

Weren't they a band in the 70's


:D

I believe you're thinking of Erogenous Espionage, but I could be mistaken. ;)

I thought that was more of a zone...

Took a shot at the upgrade this morning, result: about 5 hours of lost time

I forgot that I installed a new SSD on my system, migrated Windows to the new one but left the old one on the system. This must have confused Win10 as it tried to engage the old SSD in the upgrade.

The draw of having two SSDs was too great; but now I pay the price.

Win 10 decided that I had a bad setup that needed to be recovered. But to get to system repair was turrible; because I didn't have a CD Rom drive, and had to try to create recovery media on USB on a dying laptop, and boot that.

Win 10 system repair just put it back in Win 7 on reboot. It must have known. "Oh we gave this a try, I guess we shall punt gracefully."

I am going to try to remove the old SSD before trying the upgrade again

FYI
 

From Forbes / Tech:

Yes they are doing whatever they can TO TRY AND FORCE AS MANY PPL AS THEY CAN onto this spying garbage!!

I've been running Win10 at work for the last 2 weeks and....

...it's generally very good. I hereby endorse this product or service. I will retry the home install.

I am not afraid

Pass.

This was suggested for MS-10 users.

I noticed that apps.skype.com was in there. I'm sure skype steals your data as much as any other app, but if you actually use skype, I suspect you'd want to keep that.