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Your ability to control your personal data — including data generated from Xbox gaming — depends on which country you live in, and the mechanisms to exercise these rights require navigating Microsoft's online dashboard.
Microsoft now discloses that it may contact you by phone for marketing using automated dialers and AI-generated voices if you have consented to marketing communications, which represents a new disclo…
Microsoft's privacy policy now provides a less detailed explanation of how long your data is retained. Previously, the policy included specific examples, such as how long deleted emails remain in you…
Microsoft's updated retention policy provides greater specificity about how long your data persists and under what conditions it is deleted. The policy now explicitly states that deleted items from O…
Consumers can request to see, correct, delete, or export their Microsoft data, but the process varies by product and region, and some data may be retained for legal or security reasons even after a deletion request.
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In addition to the above rights, your local laws (including those in the EU, UK, Japan, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, or Utah) may afford you f...
If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These rights may include: the right to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold; the right to delete personal information collected from you; the right to opt-out of t...
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. These rights may include: The right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which we collected i...
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Your ability to control your personal data — including data generated from Xbox gaming — depends on which country you live in, and the mechanisms to exercise these rights require navigating Microsoft's online dashboard.
Consumers can request to see, correct, delete, or export their Microsoft data, but the process varies by product and region, and some data may be retained for legal or security reasons even after a deletion request.
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