This title is a bad case of editorializing. That's against the rules here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> "Do I have to have my camera setting turned on to use Windows Hello?"

> "No, if you choose to turn on Windows Hello, it will use your camera to sign you in even if your camera setting is turned off. If Windows Hello is turned off, it can’t access your camera.

> (Windows Hello, part of Windows 10, is a new way to sign in to your devices, apps, online services, and networks.)"

How long before you can't use any of those apps if this "feature" is not turned on. And so you are opted-in to sharing your face with Microsoft which can then be recognized when you appear in front of the TSA and your thoughts and online activities brought to your attention in need of an explanation. Or just to determine whether you need "special" attention, without informing you how they came to that conclusion.

Meh. Microsoft is just massaging Windows to be more like Google, Facebook, iOS and Android. Nothing to see here, move along now ;)

Me, I'm not having any of it. I use Windows if I need to, but I treat it like Ebola. Just as I do Google etc. They get total blue pill from me.

WTF ever happened to "don't editorialize titles"?

It reads like the Ministry of Truth from 1984.

Big Brother is watching you, and that is a good thing because when he watches you he is protecting you from Goldstien and other thought criminals.

Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, war is peace. Love Big Brother and his privacy invasions, don't turn them off or your OS won't work properly.

Only thought criminals turn off data collection settings. You don't want to go to Room 101 do you?