Saturday, 14 June 2014
Help improve Windows Store by sending URLs for the web content that apps use
What this feature does
Some apps you get from
the Store are like websites and might expose your computer to potentially
unsafe software, such as malware. If you choose to turn this feature on, it
collects information about the web content used by these apps to help Microsoft
diagnose potentially unsafe behavior. For example, Microsoft might use this
information to remove an app from the Store.
Information collected,
processed, or transmitted
If you choose to send
information about the web content used by your apps, Microsoft will collect
information about the URLs and types of content that these apps access when you
use them. This can help us identify which of these apps are receiving content
from harmful or unsafe websites. Reports sent to Microsoft include information
such as the name or identifier of the app, the full URLs of addresses the app
accesses, and full URLs that indicate the location of any JavaScript that the
app accesses. Windows generates a number called a globally unique identifier
(GUID) that is sent to Microsoft with each report. The GUID lets us determine
which data is sent from a particular computer over time. The GUID doesn’t
contain any personal information and isn’t used to identify you.
To help protect your
privacy, the information sent to Microsoft is encrypted. Information that might
be associated with a webpage that these apps access, such as search terms or
data you entered into apps, might be included. For example, if you look up a
word in a dictionary app, the word you look up might be included in the
information sent to Microsoft as part of the full address accessed by the app.
Microsoft filters these addresses to try to remove personal information where
possible.
Use of information
Microsoft periodically
reviews the information sent to help detect apps that might be interacting with
unsafe web content, such as harmful web addresses or scripts. We might use this
information to take action against potentially harmful apps. Addresses of web
content can unintentionally contain personal information, but this information
isn't used to identify, contact, or target advertising to you. We use the GUID
to determine how widespread the feedback we receive is and how to prioritize
it. For example, the GUID allows Microsoft to distinguish between potentially
unsafe behavior occurring 100 times on a single PC, and the same behavior
occurring once on each of 100 PCs.
Choice and control
If you choose express
settings while setting up Windows, Windows will send information about the web
content used by your apps from the Store built using JavaScript. If you choose
to customize settings, you can control this setting by selecting Use
SmartScreen online services to help protect against malicious content in sites
loaded by Windows Store apps and Internet Explorer, and in malicious downloads under
Help protect your PC and your privacy. After installation, you can
change this setting in Privacy in PC
settings.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
1 comment :
It was very encouraging to see this kind of content. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for taking time to discuss about this technology. I love to learn more about this topic.
Dot Net Training in Chennai | Dot Net Training in anna nagar | Dot Net Training in omr | Dot Net Training in porur | Dot Net Training in tambaram | Dot Net Training in velachery
Post a Comment