User Privacy How does Microsoft Product Activation protect customer privacy?
Microsoft highly values respect for and protection of customers private information. User privacy was a paramount design goal in building the Product Activation technology. Microsoft Product Activation is completely anonymous, and no personally identifiable information is collected. Activation is different from product registration. If they wish, customers may voluntarily register their product by providing their name and contact information. Registration is for those customers who want to receive future communications on product updates, service releases and other special offers. Any information provided to Microsoft remains secure and private and is used only for the purposes specified by the customer. Further, the hardware hash used during activation is a combination of hash values of various PC components and cannot be used to determine the make or model of the PC, nor can it be backward-calculated to determine the raw PC information. Is there rechecking of the activation done afte
