Despite Microsoft’s recent announcement of new user privacy controls, and a new Windows 10 privacy setup experience, EU watchdogs have raised concerns that those measures may not go far enough.
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced changes to Windows 10 to offer users greater control over how it collects data about them from its devices and services. Among the changes were a new web privacy dashboard, and a new privacy setup experience for devices, with a clear explanation of the types of data that Microsoft collects, and more granular controls for users to enable or disable them.
It later emerged that those new measures were announced after an investigation into Microsoft by Swiss data protection regulators that began in 2014. The company worked with Swiss authorities to introduce those new measures that it revealed last month — but elsewhere in Europe, data protection watchdogs appear to believe that the new features don’t go far enough.
As Reuters reports, the Article 29 Working Party — a group formed of representatives from data and privacy regulators in each of the European Union’s member states — wrote to Microsoft in 2016, before its recent announcements.
