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.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024
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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.
Wow, if that's true, I hope the EU imposes significant fines, and not in two years...
Can confirm. These fuckers are gonna slapped with the mother of all fines
EU: best can do is 0.5% of global revenue
opt-in by default
That’s not really what “opt-in” means.
On a Windows PC, the steps include going to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences and unchecking the box.
For everyone who, like me, has to use MS for business reasons.
If you're in an organization, create a support ticket citing concerns about internal documents secrecy. They can disable it for everyone and tell Microsoft that they crossed the line.
How delightfully convoluted
Scraping Excel? What the hell are they going to do with that data, you can’t just make up quarterly reports.
Frankly, I wonder about that sometimes, given the reports I have seen from some CFOs
How else would you come up with your financial data?
I throw dice at monkeys then pray they don’t murder me in my sleep.
Sounds like as good a method as any.
It’s probably the structure of the documents that is most interesting for „AI“ when it comes to excel. Not the bare numbers, but what information goes where and how it gets linked.
The opt-out button is actually very easy to find. It's right there with the rest of the Uninstall buttons.
Great, nothing better than training LLMs on vulnerability assessment and Red Teaming reports of banks and clients. I hope this does have a GPO.
Not that it would help. Even though there is a chance the testers would turn it off (assuming they even know about it, I just learned about it today and already worked with two reports this week, just like dozen of my colleagues across several dozen projects) the report still goes through the hands of several management and even sales people on both sides. Unless both ITs has caught wind of it and have the GPO turned to opt out (which is unlikely), I'm honestly really looking forward to some training data in the form of highly confidential security data leaking.
well, i switched to libreoffice on my laptop 2 weeks ago. Switching to linux entirely when i get the desktop. Garuda or Bazzite. Maybe Tumbleweed
It's not like businesses can just not use Excel or whatever. Microsoft has everyone by the balls and they know it.