The blog post mentions a Mastodon post by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information[1]:
"The reports of suspected MS data collection via Outlook are alarming. At the meeting of European Data Protection Authorities on Tuesday, we will ask the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for a report."
Data is the new gold rush, big companies will mine it to train their AI systems whatever terms and conditions they pretend to adhere by and those AI's will give the big companies massive advantages.
I would seriously consider using an alternative messaging for company and private business IP and financial data.
In hindsight we are going to laugh how obvious this was.
Backup is data collection. The difference between it and other sorts of data collection is only in intent, and intent, even if initially good, can change—at which point the data is already there, so it's too late to complain.
There must be something else going on. I can't believe Microsoft would be so stupid as to copy people's passwords. Is this a mistake of some sort? How would something like that get approved?
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[1]https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38217457
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212453
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38219568
I would seriously consider using an alternative messaging for company and private business IP and financial data.
In hindsight we are going to laugh how obvious this was.
Backup is data collection. The difference between it and other sorts of data collection is only in intent, and intent, even if initially good, can change—at which point the data is already there, so it's too late to complain.