Prepare to be overcome with paranoia. Everything you type into the search bar or the Start menu in Windows 10 gets routed through Microsoft's virtual assistant, Cortana (Microsoft's answer to Siri, and named after the cerulean woman who guides you in the Halo games). Cortana logs your swill develop a better understanding of your PC habits, your favourite news site, social networks, and the things you search for. It relies on the Bing search engine to deliver you info that it thinks you'll find relevant. If you find all this a bit snoopy and creepy, then you can disable it (God help me, I nearly referred to it as 'her' there). First, log into your Microsoft account here to control how much Cortana knows about you. Next, you need to disable her... it in your Microsoft Edge browser. Here's how: In Microsoft Edge, go to Settings > Advanced Settings >View Advanced Settings. Under 'Privacy and Services', turn off the 'Have Cortana Assist Me in Microsoft Edge' option Cortana's privacy policy has already come under fire, as tech site Ars Technica recently discovered that Cortana continues to send some data to Microsoft even after you've switched the feature off. Apparently, this is all outlined in the terms and conditions (which you obviously read in their entirety), but it still stinks of corporate snooping.
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