Manage Microsoft Account data with Microsoft's Personal Data Dashboard
Microsoft today released a beta version of its Personal Data Dashboard web application which reminds me a bit of Google's Dashboard which serves a similar purpose. The dashboard displays some of the information that Microsoft has about you or thinks it knows about you.
You need to sign in with your Microsoft Account to access the information Microsoft has prepared on the Personal Data Dashboard. You start on the My Profile page which is just a simply listing of profile related information such as your first and last name, birthday or email address. Here you also find links to edit the profile information. This can be helpful if you need to update them, for instance the zip code after moving.
More interesting than that is the My Data listing that is further divided into Interests, Brands, Bing searches and Newsletters with the promise that additional data gets added at a later point in time.
- Interests lists the topics that you have either added to your account, or that Microsoft believes you are interested in.
- Brands lists the same for brands
- Bing Searches displays the recent Bing Search history with an option to go to Bing Search to display more items
- Newsletters lists all Microsoft newsletters and subscriptions that you are subscribed to
The My Choices page lets you control how Microsoft is using the data. The page is divided into use for Microsoft Advertising and Microsoft Email Communications. The advertising listing basically determines whether you will receive personalized advertisement from Microsoft based on Bing searches, interests and your profile or not.
The email communications page reveals whether you have agreed to general email promotions and the sharing of your data with Microsoft partners.
More Services finally links to other Microsoft services like Xbox or MSN that also may store and use personal user information.
The Microsoft Account dashboard is definitely a step in the right direction to provide users with a central location that they can look up and manage all their account related data in. The service is currently in beta and it may take some time before it is launched in a final version.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
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2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.