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Windows 11 Adds Per-App Control for Microphone, Location, and Camera Access

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Microsoft is preparing an update for Windows 11 that will help privacy-conscious users protect themselves from digital spyware across applications. According to a discovery by X user Jakub, the latest Experimental Insider Build v26340.9212 will allow Windows 11 users to manually turn off the camera and microphone for each Win32 application. This means that camera and microphone settings can now be applied on a per-application basis, as opposed to the previous global settings. For example, you can maintain permissions for Zoom or Teams while playing games but remove these permissions for Chrome or any other web browser to ensure your online privacy by having Windows directly cut off access to these apps. Additionally, Windows Latest was able to reproduce these findings and discovered that this Experimental Insider Build also includes per-app settings for location. This is great news for anyone who actively blocks location services globally but needs them for specific applications like m