{"id":194462,"date":"2017-01-12T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=194462"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:25:08","slug":"see-what-information-microsoft-has-collected-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/194462-see-what-information-microsoft-has-collected-about-you.html","title":{"rendered":"See what information Microsoft has collected about you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2017\/01\/10\/continuing-commitment-privacy-windows-10\/#LK1zbJAIR0hJDQCO.97\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>an online dashboard which allows users to see and control their activity data.<\/p>\n<p>Users can look back on their location, search, and browsing history to see what activity has been monitored and where they have been using their Microsoft account.<\/p>\n<p>This is the company&#8217;s first step towards creating a toolset which gives users visibility and control over their data &#8211; with more options and data categories expected in the future.<\/p>\n<p>To access the privacy dashboard and view your history, visit your account&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/account.microsoft.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\">privacy overview<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a breakdown of the privacy dashboard categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Browse:<\/strong> Turning browsing history on in Cortana means your Microsoft Edge browser history is sent to Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Search:<\/strong> Your Bing and Cortana search history is listed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Various location activity is stored, as well as the last known location of your Windows devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cortana&#8217;s Notebook:<\/strong> If you allow Cortana to log your interests, preferences, and recommendations, that information is stored.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft plans to simplify its privacy settings in the Windows 10 Creators Update, offering only Basic and Full diagnostic options &#8211; while still allowing users to turn off settings such as location tracking and advertising.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/194320-microsoft-employees-could-monitor-all-your-communications-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft employees could monitor all your communications \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched an online dashboard which allows users to see and control their activity data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40622,123],"class_list":["post-194462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-information","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194472,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194462\/revisions\/194472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}