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Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is illegal in Europe. I'm pretty sure EU countries are left out of this. This behavior is so blatantly criminal that one wonders why the EU are the only ones who have banned it.

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I just checked my settings and it was enabled and I'm in the EU. Analytics was disabled but this special content scraper thingy was enabled.

[–] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, if that's true, I hope the EU imposes significant fines, and not in two years...

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm. These fuckers are gonna slapped with the mother of all fines

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

EU: best can do is 0.5% of global revenue