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

• vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cloud storage has nothing to do with anything/anyone reading the contents of your files.

      It’s absolutely mind boggling to me how many completely ignorant people are on the Technology community here.

      Just imagining the fines from the “won by default” lawsuits that MS would suffer at the hands of their EU users makes this whole notion hilarious!

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  • ruan@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What an ignorant thing to say…

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