this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
283 points (99.6% liked)

Privacy

4803 readers
329 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

The device id isn't ever sent to Google or Meta servers. It's created via login data on the windows machine and then sent to Microsoft with other telemetry info to be able to cross reference errors occurring with other telemetry.

At least my old company used to do something similar to track usage of internal tooling (and more importantly to alert us when users were seeing a bunch of unrecognized errors so we could alert and investigate quickly).

That being said why would Google or Meta care about Microsoft's unique identifier? They most definitely have their own they are using to track telemetry data you send them to understand usage patterns and problems.