copilot privacy

Windows 11 ships with more convenience and cloud integration than ever, but with that convenience comes an expanded surface for data collection — and a raft of new privacy choices you should understand and control. This feature walks through the most important privacy controls in Windows 11 for...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has become the center of a heated privacy debate after forum posts and network traces suggested the new Windows 11 Game Bar assistant may be capturing gameplay screenshots and sending extracted text back to Microsoft — a claim the company says is based on a...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has been thrust into the privacy spotlight this week after community testers reported that the in‑overlay AI assistant captured gameplay screenshots and extracted on‑screen text — and that evidence of outbound network traffic tied to those captures was visible in...

Microsoft this week moved to clarify a growing privacy storm around Gaming Copilot — the new AI assistant built into the Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11 — saying that screenshots are only captured when users are actively interacting with the feature, and that those screenshots are not used to train...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has landed in the crosshairs of the PC gaming community — not for a gameplay bug, but for questions about when, how, and whether it captures screenshots and on‑screen text and what happens to that data afterwards. Background / Overview Gaming Copilot is Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot—an AI assistant surfaced inside the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar—has been quietly taking screenshots of gameplay, running optical character recognition (OCR) on what’s visible, and (unless users opt out) transmitting extracted text and images back to Microsoft, a practice...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the Copilot-branded, in‑overlay AI assistant Microsoft shipped into the Windows 11 Game Bar — has been observed sending gameplay screenshots and on‑screen text to Microsoft for use in model training unless users explicitly turn off a set of privacy toggles, a...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the in‑game Copilot that lives in the Windows 11 Game Bar — is taking screenshots, extracting on‑screen text, and (unless you opt out) funneling that data into Microsoft’s model‑training pipeline, with the feature’s “Model training on text” toggle reportedly enabled...

Microsoft’s decision to draw the curtain on Windows 10 has finally arrived: the decade‑old operating system has moved from mainstream support into retirement, forcing households, small businesses and enterprise IT teams into a narrow planning window where choices are security‑driven and...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now at the center of a fast-escalating enterprise privacy debate after a recent industry write-up claimed the assistant can access an average of three million sensitive records per organization — a figure that, if true, reframes the risk surface of deploying generative AI...

Microsoft has quietly turned a gentle nudge into a full-court press: the company is actively moving Windows users away from Mail & Calendar and the classic Outlook client toward the modern, web-powered new Outlook for Windows, and it’s doing so with scheduled automatic rollouts, built-in opt-out...

Microsoft has made Artificial Intelligence a central pillar of its Windows 11 experience, and nowhere is this more apparent than with the evolution of Microsoft Copilot. Once confined to a sidebar as a spiritual—and eventually, literal—successor to Cortana, Copilot now exists as a...