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V-235748

CAT II (Medium)

Personalization of ads, search, and news by sending browsing history to Microsoft must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-235748r960963_rule

STIG

Microsoft Edge Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R5

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

This policy prevents Microsoft from collecting a user's Microsoft Edge browsing history to be used for personalizing advertising, search, news and other Microsoft services. This setting is only available for users with a Microsoft account. This setting is not available for child accounts or enterprise accounts. If this policy is disabled, users cannot change or override the setting. If this policy is enabled or not configured, Microsoft Edge will default to the user's preference.

Check Content

The policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow personalization of ads, search and news by sending browsing history to Microsoft" must be set to "disabled".

Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge

If the value for "PersonalizationReportingEnabled" is not set to "REG_DWORD = 0", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Set the policy value for "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Allow personalization of ads, search and news by sending browsing history to Microsoft" to "disabled".