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Reality check: How Windows 10’s proposed new privacy controls work in the real world

Posted on January 16, 2017 at 06:59 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

You’ve read about the new Windows 10 Creators Update privacy push – a new setup routine, new questions, new online privacy dashboard. The proposal is so persuasive the government of Switzerland has called off its threatened privacy lawsuit, and even EFF has backed off its original scathing indictment of Windows 10’s assaults on privacy.

Here’s what you need to know about what’s happening – and what isn’t happening – behind the scenes.

InfoWorld Woody on Windows

By the way, there’s a link to a cached Google page in the article that’s been changed. You can see a text version of the original Microsoft post here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YrpOjHVkC20J:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/948e1d63-b92d-4d89-a6c3-66d7b7921d15/view-or-delete-browsing-history-in-microsoft-edge&num=1&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0

The cached copy shows that on January 12, there was no mention of browser history stored on the web. Compare the new version of the View and delete browser history in Microsoft Edge post with this old (Jan. 12) version

View or delete browsing history in Microsoft Edge

Windows 10 – Windows 10 Mobile

> Your browsing history includes sites you’ve visited, passwords, info you’ve entered into forms, and cookies. Microsoft Edge remembers this info and stores it on your PC as you browse the web.

> To view your browsing history, select the Hub icon  , and then History. To delete it, select Clear all history, choose what you want to remove, and then select Clear.

What gets deleted when you delete your browsing history

Windows News Creators Update, Privacy, Widnows 10

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