Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

• roserose56@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not how cloud save works!

    The files are saved to local storage that then gets sync’d up to the Cloud. The files are available both on- and offline.

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• vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As if windows does not send telemetry

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  • sfjvvssss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Telemetry ≠ Uploading whole documents

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    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Comes from a person who hasn’t written telemetry. It’s either useless or contains private information

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      • kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Private information doesn’t necessarily mean “entire contents of all word documents I have ever created”

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      • ruan@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are many tiers of private information.

        You can definetly collect a lot of useful telemetry data without collecting any of the, lets say, “most sensitive” private information.

        Just to exemplify:

        • you can collect telemetry on the most acessed features of a software and associate it with their location: whilst collecting their location you can definetly choose between having the person’s specific location (GPS coordinates with a few meters of accuracy) or their broad location (i.e.: their city, state, or country).

          • with the broad location you can have insights on how users of your software behave per region and plan accordinly actions or those regions.

        Collecting someones specific location is definetly way more sensitive than their broad location…

        And the full content of all textual documents a person generates has a very high chance of containing of their most sensitive private information…

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What an ignorant thing to say…

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  • humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t use Windows either.

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Access” as in: have anything to do with them? Then why tf are you using Word on Windows?

  “Access” as in: be able to read them? That would be super illegal for them to do and the easiest class action lawsuit win in history. EU fines would eat them alive.

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because I do not want Microsoft to have access to all my documents.

    That’s not how cloud save works! …

    You need to explain why you think the second statement refutes the first.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think I accidentally posted that on the wrong comment. My bad.

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