Windows 10 offers to renew and check your privacy settings
By Prempal Singh
Privacy in Windows 10 with the first day of its appearance has been a controversial issue. Telemetry is widely seen as spying on users.
Recently, the French regulator said Microsoft has satisfied the requirements and halved data collection.
Earlier this year, the company launched the Privacy panel, where the user is offered more control over their data in Windows 10. In view of the ever-growing threat posed by the application for extortion and theft of company data is now a constant reminder of the need to check your privacy settings.
Since the beginning of July, Microsoft began to send notifications to users who have not upgraded to Windows 10 Creators Update. These notifications are invited to check the privacy setting that resembles a notice on the application Get Windows 10. You will be able to reject the notice of up to five times, after which the final notification asks you to confirm the settings. The developers claim that it will take a few seconds.
Microsoft says that users will not be forced to upgrade to Creators Update after confirming your privacy settings, even if the computer will be recognized as suitable for renovation. If the device is running on a system, which dropped support, users will receive a notification of the need to upgrade to the latest version, at the moment it Creators Update. Who dropped support for the original version of Windows in October 1507 editions of Home / Pro / Education / Enterprise. Relative frequency of occurrence of such proposals the company does not say.