The article says,
"Clicking Settings on the Start menu’s left pane, followed by clicking the Privacy button, a Windows 10 user will find a selection box to turn it off – all the way at the bottom, of course.
“Once in Privacy, go to the General section and Turn off Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future,” Spector explains.
“While you’re there, examine the other options and consider if there’s anything else here that you may want to change.”
To stop Windows 10 from collecting your speech, you must also go to the Speech, inking and typing section and click Stop getting to know me.
This same area contains options for restricting Microsoft from collecting data from your camera, microphone, contacts and calendar."
(The best way to turn it off, because BigTech always lies about data collection and has no oversight, is to move to linux.)
Thanks for posting this! Don't forget to turn off Activity History too! And I agree, Linux is the only way to be somewhat secure. I'm still trying to find a good android emulator like Bluestacks for linux. Anyone got the hook up?
That was the first thing I turned off when I started using win10. I have to recheck the privacy settings every time they do an update.
How do you turn it off?
The article says, "Clicking Settings on the Start menu’s left pane, followed by clicking the Privacy button, a Windows 10 user will find a selection box to turn it off – all the way at the bottom, of course.
“Once in Privacy, go to the General section and Turn off Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future,” Spector explains.
“While you’re there, examine the other options and consider if there’s anything else here that you may want to change.”
To stop Windows 10 from collecting your speech, you must also go to the Speech, inking and typing section and click Stop getting to know me.
This same area contains options for restricting Microsoft from collecting data from your camera, microphone, contacts and calendar."
(The best way to turn it off, because BigTech always lies about data collection and has no oversight, is to move to linux.)
Thanks for posting this! Don't forget to turn off Activity History too! And I agree, Linux is the only way to be somewhat secure. I'm still trying to find a good android emulator like Bluestacks for linux. Anyone got the hook up?