Microsoft says it may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Here's how to protect your privacy.

If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, your disk is likely already encrypted, and the key is likely already stored on ...

Microsoft automatically uploads BitLocker recovery keys to the cloud, allowing FBI access via warrants as proven in recent ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

If your machine is uploading your BitLocker keys to Microsoft, it turns out Microsoft can and will give them to law ...

Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed with a court order.