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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)
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[–] 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