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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.
Microsoft Operating Systems Privacy Software Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users More Control Over App Permissions
What about Windows 10 giving users more control over OPERATING SYSTEM Permissions?
M$ did thing! Thing is bad!
It's a thing we've wanted before? That other OSes we like do?
Doesn't matter! M$ is teh evil!!1
How it will work, is, each app will ask for a buttload of permission for stuff you'd think it doesn't need, like a puzzle game asking for camera permissions, but the app will not run unless it gets those permissions, so most users will give up and grant every app all permissions, thus making the whole exercise pointless.
Don't confuse hating change for worse with hating change in general.
And? Kids lack knowledge, experience and wisdom. They have the least credibility out of anybody.