When are going to go through the windows 10 privacy settings first point to note is it has been shown
so far that with each major Windows 10 updates so Redstone 4 5 6 etc. the update resets your privacy
settings to default which is unfortunate.
So you want to recheck your privacy settings after every major update because Microsoft really wants
your data.
You can change your privacy settings on install on upgrade and post install and the options are much
the same wherever you're doing it again second know that depending on what update you have Redstone
4 5 6 etc. What version of Windows you have home pro education enterprise the location of where a setting
might be can differ.
So why show you on the screen next may not be in the same place on your version which is unfortunate
simply as you can see here.
Do a search for the setting I'm talking about.
If it's not in the same places where I'm showing you using a search and try to find where abouts is
in this example I'm using smart screen as something I'm searching for that may have been moved out the
privacy settings and put into the security settings instead.
So let's look at the privacy settings.
To do that you need to come down here settings privacy icon and here we are and you can see the left
here we got a whole bunch of different options for different types of privacy settings.
The first one is in general and the top one is let apps use my advertising ID for experiences across
apps.
Turning this off will reset your ID so Windows 10 assigns each instance of the operating system a unique
advertising ID.
This is used to customize ads that are sent to you by third party companies such as ad networks and
advertisers.
So do not need that privacy issue.
Next one turn on the small screen filter to check web content are Elle's that window store apps use.
So this is what that small screen filter helps you identify.
Report phishing our Web sites and also helps you make informed decisions about downloads more screen
helps protect you in three ways.
As you browse the web it analyzes pages and determines if they have any characteristics that might be
suspicious.
Small screen checks the sites you visit again a dynamic list of reported phishing sites and malicious
software sites small screen text files that you download from the web against a list of reported malicious
software sites and programs known to be on say so this is actually a good security feature.
So this is something that you would want to have enabled for security.
But if you have privacy concerns you may want to switch this off because it will log when ever you are
going to Web sites.
It will log those things.
Then we have send Microsoft info about how I write to help inform typing and writing in the future.
This actually logs your keystrokes on what you are typing and it's designed for auto correction text
completions so that it can be better at that.
But again it's sending information.
So it's a privacy issue.
Be concerned about privacy.
Need to switch that off.
Let Web sites provide locally relevant content.
By assessing my language less you want to switch this off as well.
It sends information out there.
We have managed my Microsoft advertising and all the personalization info.
This is going to take you to an external page where we have a couple of options.
We've got personalized ads in this browser.
Well no thank you.
And personalize ads.
Whenever I use my Microsoft account.
Again privacy issue.
No thank you.
And this includes Windows Windows Phone X-Box and other devices.
The location type when location services for this account are own apps and services you allow can request
location and location history.
So this is geo location via GPS and why file location.
There is a global switch here to switch it off which is nice and then you can switch it off or on.
For each individual application.
So I'd recommend that.
This is all for privacy and if you have the need for any of these to be on then you will be giving away
privacy information to those particular services.
Next is a camera.
This is really asking What apps do we want to allow access to our cameras.
So if we want to be particularly cautious we can switch the camera off until when we need it or we can
disable it on all of the app support for maybe the odd one that we want.
Next is microphone.
Again we have the global on or off we can choose which apps get access to the microphone.
You may want to switch this off till you want to use it if you're a little bit concerned that the microphone
may be switched on to listen.
It certainly is with Cortana.
Next is speech inking and typing windows and code can get to know your voice in writing to make better
suggestions for you.
We will collect info like contacts recent calendar events speech handwriting patterns and typing history
so privacy issue.
Start getting to know me.
Turned off and then we want to go to go to being and manage personal info for all your devices.
And then here if you have Microsoft accounts you will sign in and you will deactivate any of the things
that you deem to be a privacy issue.
Nexts account info
apps access my name picture and other account info to disable that for privacy.
Nice's contacts who you want to share your contact information with which apps
again up to you potential privacy issue.
Next calendar apps access my calendar now.
Thank you.
Next is messaging
apps read or send emails.
So this can be used for example if an app wants to authenticate it might send a message to your machine.
This is more designed for mobile devices but it might send a message to your machine and or to authenticate
like a messaging app.
No Maxxis radios
cement shoes radios such as Bluetooth in your device to send and receive data.
Sometimes apps need to turn these radios on and off to work their magic.
So sometimes you get an app that needs to switch on or off Wi-Fi.
But if you switch those off you probably switch off for a good reason.
You might want to set that two off.
Nice's other devices
let your apps automatically share and sync info with wireless devices that don't explicitly pass with
your PC tablet or phone so you don't want information sinking.
Privacy issue.
Next is feedback and diagnostics
window should ask for my feedback.
Never We don't want to be sending feedback information back to Microsoft and just to be safe we can
set this to basic and the last one here is background apps
choose which apps can receive info send notifications and stay up to date.
When you're not using them turning background apps off can help conserve power.
So this is designed more for conserving power but at the same time you can use it to disable these from
going out and asking for various bits of information that can interfere with your privacy.
So you want to switch all of these off
if you want further explanations on the latest privacy settings.
This is a best resource and most up to date resource that I'm aware of that keeps updating.
So check it out as well.