Microsoft is going to stop sharing your passwords through Wi-Fi Sense

Microsoft is getting rid of a feature in Windows 10 that raised privacy concerns when it was introduced last year.

Wi-Fi Sense was intended to “get you on the internet more quickly in more places,” by automatically connecting to any in-range open Wi-Fi network.

But it also granted access to your password-protected Wi-Fi network by automatically sharing your Wi-Fi password with your Outlook.com, Skype and (optionally) Facebook contacts. Wi-Fi Sense only shared passwords via an encrypted connection, so “your contacts don’t get to see your password, and you don’t get to see theirs,” according to Microsoft.