Tip 2: Turn off Location Tracking to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
Wherever you are with your laptop, be it your home or a restaurant, your location is captured by Windows. It tracks your location all the time and feeds the location data to applications like Weather, Maps, etc. This is not necessarily a bad thing as these apps use this data to give you personalized updates. However your location is fully tracked, it might be used by people who are operating in an unethical manner. Hence, stopping your location from being tracked is the optimal solution to this problem.
To make it happen, you need to go to Settings > Privacy > Location. Under Allow access to location on this device, you will see a switch that enables or disables the location tracking of your PC. Click on Change and turn the switch Off.
How to Protect Your Privacy on Windows?
We use Windows in our way. We search for various things on the web, install several apps on our computers, watch our favourite videos, and do many more things. Usually, we want to keep all of our activities private. In other words, we want them to be restricted to ourselves. But often, some settings on our PC cause our privacy to be exposed to third-party applications, which is not at all a good thing.
In today’s article, we are going to look at 9 Tips on how to protect your privacy on Windows and keep your online activities safe and secure. Let’s get started.
Table of Content
- Tip 1: Turn off the Advertising ID to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 2: Turn off Location Tracking to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 3: Turn off Activity History to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 4: Turn off Diagnostic Data to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 5: Curb Cortana to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 6: Change App Permissions to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 7: Turn off Inking & Typing Personalization to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 8: Turn off App Diagnostics to Protect Your Privacy on Windows
- Tip 9: Changing Browser’s Search Engine Settings to Protect Your Privacy on Windows