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Do you collect PII (personally identifiable information) during the WGA validation process? Will Microsoft keep a list of people whose software isn genuine?

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Do you collect PII (personally identifiable information) during the WGA validation process? Will Microsoft keep a list of people whose software isn genuine?

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Our client software does not collect any information that can be used to identify or contact a user. We use the same process used by many popular search engines and web sites to determine where their users are from – a form of IP lookup. This IP lookup process does not include any information that is used to identify you or contact you, and only gives a rough geographic representation of where users are located.