In this overview video, find out how Microsoft tracks how you use Windows and find out how you can limit what is shared with Microsoft. Microsoft offers several tools, like the Privacy Dashboard and the Diagnostic Data Viewer that allow you to see what Microsoft tracks. You can clear the data from Microsoft’s servers if you like. Additionally, we look at how you can limit what’s tracked via settings in Windows and via third party tools.
- Additional resources
- Microsoft Privacy Dashboard: https://account.microsoft.com/account/privacy?ru=https%3A%2F%2Faccount.microsoft.com%2Fprivacy&destrt=privacy-dashboard
- Diagnostic Data Viewer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/diagnostic-data-viewer/9n8wtrrsq8f7?activetab=pivot%3Aoverviewtab
- Brave web browser: https://brave.com/
- Spybot Anti-beacon: https://www.safer-networking.org/products/spybot-anti-beacon/
- Timestamps
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:56 Privacy Dashboard
- 2:45 Diagnostic Data Viewer
- 3:24 Limit what data is shared with Microsoft
- 3:41 Set up local account
- 4:37 Windows Security
- 5:27 Device location
- 5:45 General – including personalized ads
- 6:38 Speech, inking & typing
- 6:58 Diagnostics & feedback
- 8:15 App permissions
- 8:55 Random hardware addresses
- 9:25 Third party tools
- 10:07 Wrap up
Kevin Stratvert 