Microsoft 10 Faces Tough Problems With Data Security; Solutions Underway

By Maria Follet - 16 Jan '17 05:30AM
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Security features of hardware and even software are really an utmost consideration to people. And this problem even reached the portals of Windows 10, which made its users apprehensive. Microsoft has faced an earlier analysis from Electronic Frontier Foundation about the software's alleged sending of usage data already surpassing to its expected limit.

The company now has high hopes regarding their successful solution to the problem. The information was included in an article from The Verge, where it was also detailed that simplifying data collection actions will enable a more secured software. Through this, the company will be able to track the data being sent back to them from the software.

So what are some of the actions that Microsoft has undertaken to take care of the issue? One of these is the reported creation of a privacy dashboard. Information from PC World states that it is where one can see all of the data being collected by the software. However, this will only be accessible if a person has an existing account in Microsoft.

Privacy dashboard of Microsoft 10 gives members the ability to manage all of the data collected by the software. The users have the freedom to either block or just erase a particular data. Going back to the reported capability of privacy dashboard to simplify data, there are three known levels of such feature: Basic, Enhanced, and the Full. When talking about Basic simplifying of data, the privacy dashboard only allows a particular amount of data enough for the Microsoft 10 to operate at its functionality.

According to the article published at Digit, these information includes data regarding locations, browsing and search activities of a person, and even date from Cortana Notebook across services offered by Microsoft. With the lifestyle that people are living now, a secure data is an ever changing necessity.

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