WSL/DATA_AND_PRIVACY.md

# WSL data & privacy

## Overview

WSL collects diagnostic data using Windows telemetry, just like other Windows components. You can disable this by opening Windows Settings, navigating to Privacy and Security -> Diagnostics & Feedback and disabling 'Diagnostic data'. You can also view all diagnostic data that you are sending in that menu using the 'View diagnostic data' option. 

For more information please read the [Microsoft privacy statement](https://www.microsoft.com/privacy/privacystatement).

## What does WSL collect?

1. Usage
   - Understanding what features and settings are most often used in WSL helps us make decisions on where to focus our time and energy.
2. Stability
   - Monitoring bugs and system crashes assists us in prioritizing the most urgent issues.
3. Performance
   - Assessing the performance of WSL gives us an understanding of what runtimes / components could be causing slow downs. This supports our commitment in providing you a speedy and effective WSL. 

You can search for WSL telemetry events by looking for calls to `WSL_LOG_TELEMETRY` in the source code of this repository.
Initial open source commit for WSL. Many Microsoft employees have contributed to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, this commit is the result of their work since 2016. The entire history of the Windows Subsystem for Linux can't be shared here, but here's an overview of WSL's history after it moved to it own repository in 2021: Number of commits on the main branch: 2930 Number of contributors: 31 Head over https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases for a more detailed history of the features added to WSL since 2021. 2025-05-15 12:09:45 -07:00			`# WSL data & privacy`

			`## Overview`

			`WSL collects diagnostic data using Windows telemetry, just like other Windows components. You can disable this by opening Windows Settings, navigating to Privacy and Security -> Diagnostics & Feedback and disabling 'Diagnostic data'. You can also view all diagnostic data that you are sending in that menu using the 'View diagnostic data' option.`

			`For more information please read the [Microsoft privacy statement](https://www.microsoft.com/privacy/privacystatement).`

			`## What does WSL collect?`

			`1. Usage`
			`- Understanding what features and settings are most often used in WSL helps us make decisions on where to focus our time and energy.`
			`2. Stability`
			`- Monitoring bugs and system crashes assists us in prioritizing the most urgent issues.`
			`3. Performance`
			`- Assessing the performance of WSL gives us an understanding of what runtimes / components could be causing slow downs. This supports our commitment in providing you a speedy and effective WSL.`

			You can search for WSL telemetry events by looking for calls to `WSL_LOG_TELEMETRY` in the source code of this repository.