Microsoft announces Windows 10 privacy-focused update

Microsoft in the next major Windows 10 update will focus more on controlling user privacy. The company will provide full access to an application's security features during installation.

Thus, from the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the user will receive privacy messages during the installation of applications. The initiative makes the user understand what the application wants to do with the data when it is installed on Windows 10 and with that, the need to have to read the extensive terms.

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With this, when an application wants to have access to the microphone, camera, contacts, calendar and also other information, Windows 10 will be responsible for displaying a message to the user asking for access permission or not.

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The next major Windows 10 update, the Fall Creators Update will be released on October 17th for all users. Microsoft, until then, will test the new security features with Windows Insider users.

This Wednesday (13), Microsoft released the September "Patch Tuesday" updates for computers and smartphones with Windows 10. The updates for this month bring small fixes and improvements to the system. For PC, the update is identified as KB4038788 and on smartphones, just as "Update 09-2017 for Windows 10".