Microsoft may have your encryption key [telecom]

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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