Windows privacy settings

Windows has many great features that provide a personalized and enhanced connected experience for its users. To support this personalization, Windows has permission settings that control what data and device features that applications are allowed to access. A few examples include allowing an application to access the camera, device location, or microphone. Unless controlled by a policy, many of these privacy permissions are allowed by default and could pose a potential privacy risk for some organizations. To view the Windows privacy settings, open Settings and choose Privacy & Security. Here, you can get an idea of the types of permissions that are available to applications, such as access to speech settings, diagnostics and feedback, activity history, and more. Through Settings, you can granularly configure app-specific permissions or allow or deny all for each permission type.

Let's run through a few settings and where we can configure them using...