Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users More Control Over App Permissions (engadget.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: The software giant has revealed that you'll get much more control over what apps are allowed to do with your device. Where you previously only had control over location sharing, the Fall Creators Update will ask you to grant permission before accessing all kinds of potentially sensitive hardware and software features. It'll ask to use your camera and microphone if you have a video recording app, for instance, or check before offering access to your calendar and contacts. You'll only get these prompts for apps installed after you move to the Fall Creators Update; you'll have to dive into your privacy settings to review permissions for apps you already have. Even so, it's an important boost to Windows' privacy security levels. Much as on phones, where fine-grained permissions are already fairly commonplace, you might not have to worry as much about malicious apps spamming your contacts or hijacking the camera.

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Clarification

[XSportSeeker]

Just so people know, this has nothing to do with regular Windows software, just Windows Store apps... which no one cares about.
https://blogs.windows.com/wind...
"Starting with the Fall Creators Update, we’re extending this experience to other device capabilities for apps you install through the Windows Store."

I'd rather the headline be:

[QuietLagoon]

"Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users Complete Control Over Windows 10's Data Harvesting" But it's not. So I stuck with Windows 7 until I finish my migration to Linux.