I keep hearing that kind of response a lot. Very similar to the responses many people had about privacy concerns with the PATRIOT Act. It's silly to think the government would care about your data. It's silly.
Asking typical home users to opt-out of these new "features", and then NOT ACTUALLY disabling these features is a bit creepy.
http://arstechnica.com/information-t...-to-microsoft/
Like I said, I haven't researched it directly and I'm sure there is a lot of overblown stuff. At the same time, there's enough evidence out there to cause concern.
But Microsoft isn't like the government, right? So we don't have to worry?