How Microsoft is Lying

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/09/28/privacy-and-windows-10/

This includes data like an anonymous device ID, device type, and application crash data which Microsoft and our developer partners use to continuously improve application reliability. This doesn’t include any of your content or files, and we take several steps to avoid collecting any information that directly identifies you, such as your name, email address or account ID.

1. IP address, time, geographical location and device ID could be reliably used to tract the user down, and used as evidence in the court. Microsoft also keeps track of what sites user visits, so if user visits child porn web site, Microsoft will know it, and police may know it as well.
2. Microsoft also receives memory samples, which may as well include information incriminating you, like say child porn pictures. Is there a guarantee Microsoft won't hint police if such data identifies pedophile?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security-winpc/privacy-settings-feeback-and-diagnostics/f5a0eebc-82db-4786-9ba5-9c09182c5b5b

This option also lets us collect enhanced diagnostic information, such as the memory state of your device when a system or app crash occurs, as well as measure reliability of devices, the operating system, and apps.

Even before that, Microsoft was of great help to evil governments in persecuting innocent people, such as pedophiles, by for example making them unaware of hidden thumb.db files:
https://repo.zenk-security.com/Techniques%20d.attaques%20%20.%20%20Failles/THUMBS%20DB%20FILES%20FORENSIC%20ISSUES.pdf
As an example, a suspect in a child pornography
case could easily have hundreds of graphics stored
in their system in thumbs.db files.
Once created, they maintain information on each of the individual
files. If graphics files ar
e deleted from the folder, the thumbs.db file
will retain them. So, a suspect who
has deleted evidence of photos prior
to seizure of the computer, may still have thumbnail images of the
graphics stored in the thumbs.db files. These graphi
cs will remain, even if the folder is renamed or they
may be located in unallocated space as deleted files.
This can be potentially important evidence, espe-
cially in light of a suspect who denies t
hose types of files were on their system.

Its ironic that pedophiles serve as canary in the coal mine for privacy. If some kind of privacy crisis looms overhead, the first victims will be pedos, since their exposure/incarceration/persecution is morally justified and supported by vast majority. In fact government can justify almost anything if its somehow can be spun as a measure targeting pedophiles.
That doesn't mean pedophiles aren't complete scum, their position as social pariahs is a lever that can be manipulated to gain public support for anything controversial - its a convenient tool to establishing a police state.
Lets take for example NSA(or any agency with internet surveillance capability), it has vast databases on anything on the internet and can possibly track every child porn site in real-time with its filtering algorithms. But its hampered by regulations limiting its activities to "global problems". Now suppose government wants to expands the legal surveillance powers of NSA:
All it needs to do is to make it seems the new powers granted are necessary to catch pedophiles(but of course can't be limited to just that thing. That is like releasing the genie from the bottle. Instantly gain near 100% public support and anyone voting against it will be labeled pedophile sympathizer by the media(i.e. ruining their political career). Counter-terrorism can be used in a similar way, but public opposition to encroachment on freedoms and vague definition of terrorist activity, makes this harder to push - there is actual opposition.
Pedophiles are in contrast are much harder to defend, so any measure against them will not create public opposition: i.e. debate will be severely limited by social climate.