Enlarge / The new settings page is likely to look something like this, though Microsoft says it may change before the final release. (credit: Microsoft)

The Windows 10 Creators Update is going to introduce new settings and controls for Windows 10’s privacy and data collection capabilities.

These changes have two parts. Available immediately is a Web-based “privacy dashboard” that gives access to, and the ability to delete, information collected by Cortana (if you choose to enable Microsoft’s digital assistant and share the information with her in the first place): browsing history, search terms, location history, interests, contacts, and more.

Coming later this year in the Windows 10 Creators Update is a reworking of the operating system-level privacy controls. The main thing these will do is to make the choice more explicit; instead of being able to pick “Express settings,” which sets a bunch of privacy-related options but does not enumerate them or fully describe them, the Windows 10 out-of-box experience will show a bunch of privacy-related options. To complete the process, particular settings must be chosen explicitly. The settings page will be more descriptive about what each setting controls and what features will be disabled when a given option is disabled.