Windows 10 has the capability to record everything you say, everything you type and everything you write. Okay, I have a fundamental problem with this. Microsoft implemented this feature in the Beta release of Windows 10 to help the product development troubleshoot problems and improve the product. The product development team loved it so much, they kept it in the production release of Windows 10.
I am not going to discuss Microsoft’s motivation for keeping this in the production product. I will give you my opinion: Information is leaking like a water from a broken colander, so why would we keep this around? Saving this information on your device and the cloud is a massive issue. Here is what you need to do, turn it off and remove the voice, writing, typing from the cloud.
Go to Windows Settings -> Privacy -> Speech, Inking, & typing. If you see Stop getting to know me then click on it and it will turn it off and remove all the data from your local drive. You also need to remove all the data from the cloud. So on that same screen “Go to Bing and manage personal info for all your devices” to clear the Getting to Know You Data from your Microsoft account.
This combined with the setting “Send Microsoft info about how I write” has me very concerned. So turn that off too. On the same screen click on “General” then the third item on the right, “Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future” Turn that off.
