It seems that the Facebook scandal has caused other companies to take action as well. At least this has been the case with Microsoft and Apple. Because both have announced that they will make new measures to protect users’ privacy. A decision that undoubtedly seems a consequence of the scandal that the social network is experiencing.
Apple and Microsoft will take steps to protect your privacy
In the case of Microsoft, these new features will be presented in the Spring Creators Update of Windows 10, which will arrive in a few days. These are measures with which the American company hopes to improve and protect the privacy of operating system users.
Microsoft will make available to users functions that will allow users to view and delete stored data. This way, this data will not be sent to the company’s servers. These are the measures that are already known, although more are likely to come. We’ll know in a matter of a few days. Apple also announces proposals to this effect.
The company will improve its privacy tools so that users have greater control over it. Also, they will be able to download and delete personal information stored about them on Apple’s servers.
Both companies are announcing these measures at a time when user privacy seems to be more at stake than ever. So we will have to see how these measures are received and whether they meet the objective of protecting users’ data in a better way.