copilot privacy

Microsoft’s plan to saturate Windows with generative AI appears to have hit the brakes: multiple recent reports and insider threads indicate a company-wide reassessment of how — and how much — Copilot and other AI features should be woven into Windows 11, with some high-profile projects paused...

PCMag UK’s round‑up of “10 Simple File Explorer Tweaks” is a timely reminder that the files and folders on your PC deserve the same attention as the apps you use to open them — and that a few small changes in File Explorer can dramatically reduce friction. The list — from pinning folders in...

Microsoft’s Copilot appears to be getting a refreshed screenshot tool — one designed to let the assistant “see” and act on on‑screen content more smoothly — but the launch comes with familiar privacy fault lines that Microsoft has yet to fully close...

Microsoft's Copilot has quietly added a default-on privacy toggle that lets the assistant pull product usage signals from other Microsoft services — and anyone who values control over their data should treat that change as a wake‑up call and audit their Copilot settings right now. Background /...

Microsoft quietly flipped a switch that lets Copilot pull activity signals from other Microsoft services — Edge, Bing, MSN and “other Microsoft products you’ve used” — and left that switch turned on for many users by default, creating a privacy decision some people never knew they were making...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly widened the scope of what it can remember about you: the assistant can now draw on activity signals from other Microsoft services — explicitly calling out Edge, Bing and MSN — to personalize responses via its Memory feature, and that sharing appears to be enabled...

Microsoft has quietly added a default‑on setting to Copilot that explicitly permits the assistant to “use data from Bing, MSN, Edge, and other Microsoft products you’ve used,” and you should seriously consider turning it off right now if you care about privacy, discoverability, or simply keeping...

Microsoft’s week in software and gaming felt less like a slow burn and more like a pressure cooker: a top‑level shakeup at Xbox, a major OneDrive refresh for macOS, a series of Windows 11 Insider updates that quietly reshape the testing streams, and security headlines that demanded immediate...

Microsoft’s flagship workplace assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized email messages that organizations had explicitly labeled Confidential, a logic error the company logged internally as service advisory CW1226324 and that has forced a re‑examination of how embedded...

I once asked the Copilot for some explanation, and it came up with a reference to one of my files on Onedrive. The Copilot is a powerful search engine, and it is my data, I have the right to accessing it, I know, but a Copilot searching through my data, makes me rather nervous. Has the Copilot...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity AI for Microsoft 365 has a glaring privacy problem: for weeks a code error allowed Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labelled as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and undermining a core tenant...

Microsoft’s mobile Copilot experience now appears to default to cloud-first processing: when the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app is set as the device’s document viewer, opening a local attachment can upload that file to OneDrive (and into Copilot’s processing pipeline) before you can simply...

Microsofts Copilot steht erneut im Zentrum einer Datenschutzdebatte: Während Sicherheitsforscher eine „Reprompt“-Schwachstelle enthüllten, die mit einem einzigen Klick sensible Nutzerdaten aus Copilot Personal auslesen konnte, berichten Nutzer der mobilen Copilot‑App von unerwarteten...

Microsoft Copilot can be a genuine productivity multiplier — and also a surprising privacy risk if you accept defaults without looking. PCMag’s hands‑on checklist of “7 settings I changed right away to protect my privacy” is an excellent quick-start for anyone who wants the benefits of an...

Microsoft Copilot can feel like a helpful, intuitive assistant—until you start thinking about what it remembers, what it shares, and how your chats might be used to train the very models that answer you. PCMag’s hands‑on guide—“Use Microsoft Copilot? 7 Settings I Changed Right Away to Protect My...

TCL’s CES 2026 showcase made one thing plain: the company is moving beyond displays and into an AI-first strategy for smart terminals, pairing hardware innovations with Microsoft cloud and generative-AI services to push multimodal, cross-device experiences into consumer and commercial products...

LG smart TVs have started receiving a webOS update that pins Microsoft’s Copilot to the home screen — and for many owners the shortcut arrived as effectively non‑removable, touching off one of the clearest consumer backlash moments of the “AI everywhere” era. Background / Overview LG and...

LG smart TV owners woke up to a fresh firmware wave this month only to find Microsoft’s Copilot — an AI assistant many never asked for — sitting on their home screens with no obvious way to delete it, touching off a torrent of user outrage, privacy debates, and renewed questions about what...

A single PowerShell script has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over Windows 11’s expanding AI surface: RemoveWindowsAI, a GitHub project that automates the removal of Copilot, Recall, AI-enhanced apps and hidden installers — and then attempts to block their reinstallation. Background...

The empty, glass-fronted retail box that once carried Microsoft’s brand into high streets around the world has quietly become a physical symbol of a bigger failure: a direct-to-consumer playbook that never quite worked and whose casualties now include a flagship Sydney storefront reportedly...