TECHNOLOGY LAB / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft may have your encryption key; here's how to take it back
It doesn't require you to buy a new copy of Windows.
by Peter Bright As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn't actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation.
The Intercept has written that if you have bought a Windows PC recently then Microsoft probably has your encryption key. This is a reference to Windows' device encryption feature. We wrote about this feature when it was new, back when Microsoft introduced it in Windows
8.1 in 2013 (and before that, in Windows RT).
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