Looks like you had a typo there, did you mean Microsoft?
That setting and Microsoftâs âConnected Experiencesâ predate the current AI nonsense. Hereâs a list of connected experiences the OneNote app sent me to when I tapped âLearn Moreâ. Itâs all stuff that does some degree of analysis on your data, so somebody probably thought treating AI as a âconnected experienceâ made sense.
We word with government data that can never be touched by third parties, can never leave the country either. We take great care with that
Also: Government here stores most of its in Microsoft servicesâŚ
Is this relevant for Europe?
EU has consumer protections miles ahead of the US. Sometimes Americans get good things from it anyway. Example from just today - my wifeâs iPhone began working with RCS format so now we can send photos to each other without them looking like shit. We were using Whatsapp for photos.
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 donât get representation from your government representatives, but when youâre 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?
Of course it can be. But what if you donât do that. Itâs then just totally fine for Microsoft to gank your IP? Like thatâs 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? Itâs all good for them to use that?
Same if I just print out a bunch of documents, walk into Microsoftâs offices and hand it to them. Sure my company can fire me, maybe even sue me. But that doesnât make the IP suddenly fair game. Even by just looking at it, Microsoft could potentially open themselves up to legal trouble.
So I donât 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 đ¤ˇââď¸
Itâs 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 gpoâs need to update their certification so they learn this shitâŚ
Just guessing, Iâm 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 âto quoqueâ logical fallacy to justify it
I was once one of those Microsoft guys with 2000 certs, and Iâm not gonna lie, I liked working with MS stuff.
Itâs usually inane, stupid and expensive shit on the one hand. But they were wasting company time and company money. I also worked in the banking sector, so itâs not like we would have been making the world a better place if it was more efficient.
Certs gamified the whole work environment. The whole thing is that they are not that hard to get if you get into it, itâs kind of a game. However, they cost a fuckton to get and maintain, but if you are in a good place, thatâs on the company as well. Actually, the company is paying to make you more valuable to it, so thatâs nice.
And since everything is so fucking inefficient, other departments will be moving at a slothâs pace as well, so if you are half-decent at automation, and you can get a WFH job, most of your workday is basically playing video games.
