[dayglored]

So at the end of your rental/lease/subscription period, you return the Surface to Microsoft or your local dealer you got it from.

How do you guarantee that you removed all your private information from it?

You don't want them reading it, and you don't want the next person who rents/leases/subscribes the hardware you had reading it... I wonder how they guarantee privacy?

Who ya gonna trust?

[kosciusko51]

You can’t guarantee privacy unless, as part of the lease, you get to keep the hard drive(s).

[RinaseaofDs]

If it isn’t a solid state drive, you can use a magnet on it and you are good to go.