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Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data

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It may be a good policy, but this is unrelated to the point on cookie consent made in the parent post. In fact the Juro site uses a variety of analytics cookies without even having a cookie banner in place, let alone any granular system for managing cookie consent.

Fine, here's a Dutch public broadcaster: https://www.npo.nl/ Upon opening it, you'll see a button labeled "Cookie-instellingen aanpassen". Clicking on it allows you to fine tune their cookie policy. "Functional" and "Analytics" categories can't be disabled, while the other (third-party) cookies can.

Thanks! Although I gotta say that they offer no options in relation to analytics cookies which is technically in breach of the e-Privacy directive as those cookies are not strictly necessary here. There are a few cookie solutions that can be used here - BT.com has a decent user flow.

The new e-Privacy Regulation coming into force next year will however, as presently drafted, provide an exception from consent for analytics programmes that only use gathered data on a per-site basis (so excluding Google Analytics for example).

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Here's a question I haven't seen asked or answered: Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation? I've only seen people talking about GDPR as it applies to websites, but as far as I'm aware, it applies to all software.

There is an option to delete all diagnostic data collected (Windows 10 1803). You can find it under Settings->Privacy-> Diagnostics & feedback-> Delete diagnostic data. As others have mentioned you can access and manage it using the portal that is linked.* * I work at Microsoft.

How can i delete all my skype history that's clearly on your servers?
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