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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 day ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 42 points 22 hours 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 6 points 12 hours 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 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

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