Customize Your Privacy Settings
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That said, examining these options is tedious and it will be unclear, to most, which if any of these options is most important to consider changing. That is by design: though Microsoft provides an incredible list of privacy-related options to consider, the most obvious option—for disabling the telemetry data that Windows 11 sends back to Microsoft automatically—is not among them. Instead, Microsoft relies on this data to help make Windows 11 more reliable for everyone.
You can find Windows 11’s privacy settings by opening Settings (WINKEY + I) and navigating to Privacy & security. Here, you will find the privacy options organized under the sections Windows permissions and App permissions, below the Security section.
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