This is how you can manage the permissions of the different applications that we have installed in Windows 10

Today one of the concerns that most grips users is the one that refers to the use and treatment that is given to the data that concerns us. Information that companies collect in a more or less transparent way and that has led to the establishment of regulations in this regard.

Surely you have heard of the European GDPR, an acronym for General Data Protection Regulation, a legislation that seeks to protect the user and, above all, the information collected from them and shareSurely your email inbox has been flooded with notices about it these days and all companies and services must adapt to them. One of them is Microsoft, which has launched with Windows 10 April 2018 Update a series of improvements to the privacy settings of Windows 10.

These are improvements aimed at determining, on the one hand, what data is collected from our team and also to establish the access permissions that the different applications havethat we have installed. We are going to focus on this last section and be careful, surely when you review it you can get some surprises.

The objective is none other than to know what options of our equipment the applications we have installed have access to. Can it be useful if a photo editing application has access to the microphone or that another one intended to create text files has access to the camera? With these steps we will be able to know what those permissions are and to be able to change them

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And to do this, the first thing to do is go to the Settings menu, either with the key combination Win + X or with access to the gear wheel in the lower left area of ​​the screen."

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Once inside we go down to the lower right edge looking for the section Privacy and within it we will see different sections on the left sidebar. For our task we must look for the one related to Application permissions."

In this section we will see and we will be able to manage the access permissions that we have been giving to the different applications that we use daily on our computer.Whether it's the Microphone, the Camera, the Location… we can manage each and every one of them by entering their respective sections.

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We can enable in the first place if this functionality is active and if we go down in the menu we will see the different applications that have or do not have access to the same. To change the permissions, just _click_ on the Enabled / Deactivated button to confirm whether or not third-party apps access this information. "

This is a simple and easy way to control which applications have access to according to which functions of our device and a effective way to take better care of the privacy of our data.