Setup3-Privacy.txt                              02/11/14
                  8.1 Setup 3 - Privacy
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   Windows 8.1 setup sections:
      1-About  -  Terminology and where things are
      2-Basics -  Getting started, installing Stardock
    * 3-Privacy - Taming Bing and SkyDrive
      4-Backups - Imaging, Refresh, File History
      5-TileTown - The Start Screen world.    
      
                  
While you were installing 8.1, the following screen appeared. 
If you actually read it, it's kind of scary.                  

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Express Settings:
1. Automatically find and connect to devices and content on this network.
2. Automatically install Windows updates, app updates, and device software.
3. Turn on Do Not Track in Internet Explorer
4. Help protect your PC from unsafe files, apps, websites, and check 
   online for solutions to problems.
5. Help improve Microsoft software, services, and location services by 
   sending us information.
6. Use Bing to get search suggestions and web results in Windows Search, 
   and let Microsoft use your location and other information to personalize 
   your experiences.
7. In Internet Explorer, use page prediction to preload pages, which sends 
   your browsing history to Microsoft.
8. Let Windows and apps use your name, account picture, and advertising 
   ID, and request your location from the Windows Location Platform.
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   (I've numbered the items for discussion)

Numbers 1-4 are fairly routine and probably not a problem.
Numbers 5-8 are designed solely to collect your personal information so 
that Microsoft can sell targeted advertising.  Yes, you're going to get 
ads anyway, but you just might prefer that the advertisers not have a 
complete personal dossier on your account, location, and browsing history.
And do you want ads when you're not even on the Internet?

Why? From the MS 'BingAds Blog':
  http://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/blog
    "There's no need to open a browser ? Smart Search is ready on the Start page, or anywhere else in Windows 8.1 that a consumer's daily activities take them."
IOW: Even if you're searching for a file on your own computer, Bing has 
     promised its advertisers that their ads will be included in your results.
Note: Bing Ads now includes Yahoo as well.

Bing is getting way too nosy.  Let's draw the curtains.



How to turn this stuff off.

   go to 'PC Settings' | 'Search & Apps' | 'Search'
1.	turn OFF "Use Bing to search online"  
2. under "Your search experience" (just below that)
      "Don't get personalized results from Bing"
      (now grayed out because you turned the switch off)
3. Near the top, it says
   "Manage my Microsoft advertising and other personalization info"
     This is a clickable control!!  Click on it.

   This brings up a web page  <choice.microsoft.com>
	   "Your privacy and personalized ads"
   Has a video on why ads are so good for you.
      -------------- WARNING --------------------
   	This Video may want to update your version of Flash Player.
   	In my case, the update tried to add 'McAfee Security Scan Plus'
   	to my download.  If it does, UNCHECK that box!
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4. Click the purple "Choose" box:
   a. turn Off "personalized ads in this browser"
   b. ".. wherever I use this Microsoft account"
      Log in with your MS acct and turn it Off.
   c. Take a look at "Your data dashboard" to see what you've 
      told them already!
   
5. Click the "More Choices" box:
   Brings up a page on "OnLine Behavioral Advertising"
   Some good info on what it is and how you can opt out.
   a. Click the 'Consumers' tab.
      Look at the 'What are Your Choices?' paragraph.
   b. Near the end, click on the 'Consumer Opt-Out Page'.
      Look at the numbers, and do as you wish.
      
   *** EXPECT CHANGES IN THIS AREA! ***      

Don't save your documents to SkyDrive   
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   By default, Windows 8 makes SkyDrive the default location for saving a document.  It's part of their overall strategy to promote 'sharing', both with your friends and your other devices.  But there's a problem.  Anything you do except e-mail tends to create documents, and you'll hit the free storage limit pretty quickly. So turn this off - you can always save to SkyDrive if you really want to.

   PC Settings | SkyDrive | File storage
   The top part of the (cough!) window shows your SkyDrive usage.
   The bottom part has a switch "Save documents to SkyDrive by default".
      Turn that switch "Off".