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Troubleshooting & Maintaining PCs All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition
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Troubleshooting & Maintaining PCs All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

by Dan Gookin
March 2021
Beginner to intermediate
464 pages
10h 42m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

PC Privacy

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Checking privacy settings

Bullet Giving permission to apps

Bullet Controlling camera and microphone access

Bullet Setting location services

Bullet Disabling activity history

Bullet Preventing ID tracking

Who would think that connecting your personal computer — with all your private information, photos, banking data, and passwords — and connecting it to the Internet could somehow compromise your privacy? Not just the Bad Guys, but also online advertisers and marketing trackers want to know your every detail. With all that goes on in a Windows 10 PC, protecting your privacy has become an important part of keeping your PC secure.

  • In this chapter, app refers to programs you run on the computer. Microsoft is following the mobile paradigm by renaming programs as apps. App is short for application, which is a fancy way to say “program.”
  • Many items in the Settings app feature an on–off ...
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