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accounts. Here you can turn certain Microsoft accounts off, hiding them

from the Timeline.

Finally, there’s a link here that takes you to the Microsoft web page, where
you can investigate or erase all the activity Microsoft has collected about
you.

Privacy from Your Apps

The miracle of the modern app is that it can help you in astounding ways.
By analyzing your data, your movements, and your computer, it can make
you more efficient and save you a lot of steps.

For example, a movie app can tell you which movies are playing nearby—
because it has learned where you are by consulting your tablet’s GPS. Or an
email program can autocomplete somebody’s email address, saving you
time—because it has consulted your People app.

But plenty of people are creeped out by the notion of software following
their movements around town, tracking the websites they visit, or even
listening to their world through the built-in microphone.

Fortunately, the → → Privacy screen offers individual on/off
switches that shut down your apps’ access to every conceivable shred of

useful data about you and your PC. Here’s what the tabs do on that screen.

Location

This item (Figure 11-9) is generally intended for tablets and laptops—

computers that get moved around. It refers to apps that function best if they
know where you are: a movie-listing app, for example, that can show you
what’s playing at local theaters.

Of course, letting such apps know where you are also means that your
location might get transmitted to the software companies that wrote those
apps. Here’s where you can take control of the whole process: