I’m worried that a new program I installed on my Windows PC has access to my photo and picture library without me having to grant permission. Is that possible? And how can I check to see if it can get to my Pictures?
Just learning about “Advertising ID” on my Windows 10 computer and am torn: should I let apps and programs have access to my ID or not?
I read your article about identifying which iPhone apps can access your microphone and that got me wondering… what programs on my Win10 computer can access that microphone?
A friend told me that any application I run on my new Windows 10.1 system can access my entire Contacts and address book. That’s not what I want! How can I control what apps see my friends names and addresses?
I read your article about how Facebook on the iPhone tracks your location and am wondering if Microsoft Windows 10 does anything similar: Does Win10 track my location??
I was reading about the major update to Windows 10 that Microsoft just pulled because of it sneakily turning off your privacy settings. Which makes me wonder, where are they found, and in particular, what’s the deal with Advertising ID on Win10?
I hear that there are a bunch of privacy settings in Windows 10 – WIn10 – that I should check, particularly “Location”. Can you walk me through the process?
I didn’t realize it, but apparently a number of Windows 8 programs are finding out and reporting my location. How can I see what programs are doing this and disable this feature?
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