Is this relevant for Europe?
Probably not
Are they not allowed to do it for users in Europe?
If you use Microsoft office for work stuff, how do they get away with this? I get that they can violate your rights as an individual because fuck the consumer you peons don’t get representation from your government representatives, but when you’re working for some other company which has its own ton of lawyers and you use this product, how is Microsoft not getting their shit sued out of them?
That can be controlled by group policy for corporate installations
Of course it can be. But what if you don’t do that. It’s then just totally fine for Microsoft to gank your IP? Like that’s totally legal and will stand up in court?
Or what if some employee fucks with their settings? Sure you can fire the employee but what about the IP Microsoft now has? It’s all good for them to use that?
Same if I just print out a bunch of documents, walk into Microsoft’s offices and hand it to them. Sure my company can fire me, maybe even sue me. But that doesn’t make the IP suddenly fair game. Even by just looking at it, Microsoft could potentially open themselves up to legal trouble.
So I don’t see how any of this is legal.
They mentioned it in the agreement and gave you the ability to turn it off company wide. If you wanted to protect your IP you should have used Linux 🤷♂️
This isn’t about protecting your IP. This is about the incredibly shaky legal ground Microsoft is standing on by making it the default to slurp up all your files.
It’s manageable through GPO and off by default in Enterprise and Education like the other unconscionable shit I guess.
Or maybe the guys in the company doing the gpo’s need to update their certification so they learn this shit…
Just guessing, I’m a Linux guy in a Linux company. Maybe the way I worded the comment was disingenuous, but when Microsoft is so unethical I am using the “to quoque” logical fallacy to justify it
Yeah I think at this point it’s really just on the company - why are you still using such an untrustworthy piece of software?
I find this kind of thing particularly questionable because I like many people am often dealing with documents and text which I do not have the right to share with anybody even if I wanted to.
I am sure all the financial institutions and medical organizations are verrrrrry thrilled about this.
I’m sure it’s disabled at hospitals by default to prevent exporting protected patient information. Right?
Why not call spade a spade. It is Piracy setting not Privacy setting. How come when big corporations pirate it is called AI training whereas for us it is stealing.
that gives a bad name to piracy.
Because they own the lawmakers.
They’ll just turn it back on with an update in a couple weeks.
only microsoft would nest “Trust Center Settings” in the “Options -> Trust Center” panel. or even worse, put “Privacy Settings” as a sub-menu of “Privacy Options”.
It also breaks a ton of non related features if you turn it off
Hey Copilot, remove everything related to Microsoft Edge.
Ok. Removing Everything.
screen goes black
Screen goes black
Apartment starts shaking
Void starts forming and devouring everything
Entire universe is deleted from existence
“It was all Microsoft Edge?”
“Always has been.”
You know I can’t let you do that, Dave
Only a multi-billion dollar company can provide this kind of service. Incredible. /s
So, if it’s on by default and then you turn it off, do they delete all the data they stole from you while you were trying to get to the setting?
No, but they’ll turn it ON again with next update…
There’s probably a “bug” that causes that toggle to not be disabled internally
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If you ever think “Is this toggle just for show” then it absolutely is.
It’s not JUST that. I’ve had to disable it in the past for something, can’t remember what. Something had broken. But that’s why it’s not called AI services.
Why they don’t separate it into different options I don’t know. Or rather it’s obvious.
Why they don’t separate it into different options I don’t know.
Because they don’t want you turning it off. I seriously doubt they’ll actually let you turn it off.
There was literally a movie about this, the evil corp resembled Microsoft, right down to a Bill Gates lookalike CEO. Miguel de Icasa was in it with Ryan Phillips
Antitrust (2001) staring Ryan Phillippe
Phillippe.
I swear I can raad
It was an accurate spelling for pronunciation at least!
I literally went and watched the trailer and saw the mistake and still completely dyslexiaed it up
Unlikely it’s for AI training, where are they getting that from?
Does this also apply on Word/Excel on macOS?
Go check and let us know!
I hope it doesn’t\won’t need Pro version or\and Admin account.
backslashes ? found the windows user (:
