Details
This policy setting controls whether information about visited websites in Microsoft Edge is sent to Microsoft.
The recommended state for this setting is Disabled.
Rationale:
Data should not be shared with 3rd party vendors in an enterprise managed environment.
Impact:
Information about visited sites as well as diagnostic data (Default – Required diagnostic data (formally known as Basic)), such as device, battery, networking, processor and memory, virtualization, operating system, and Windows storage attributes.
Solution
To establish the recommended configuration via GP, set the following UI path to Disabled
Computer ConfigurationPoliciesAdministrative TemplatesMicrosoft EdgeSend site information to improve Microsoft services
Note: This Group Policy path may not exist by default. It is provided by the Group Policy template MSEdge.admx/adml that can be downloaded from Microsoft here.
Default Value:
Enabled – Required diagnostic data (formally known as Basic).
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.