Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions
frezik@midwest.social 4 months ago
I wonder about Microsoft’s liability on this one. People store all sorts of things in there, some personal, and some corporate things that are at least non-public, if not outright sensitive. Yeah, people should be using an encrypted drive for especially sensitive info (not that this would stop Microsoft when they own the OS), but they don’t, and it’s not for Microsoft to force the issue.
Did their legal department actually sign off on this? Or did someone in MS legal just shit a brick?
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 4 months ago
If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don’t apply to companies their size.
poorlytunedAstring@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, this is akin to Disney deciding to do some pretty clear cut theft of some smaller company’s IP, the kind of shit they’d unleash the lawyers for. But how many lawyers do you have? None? One? That’s what we though. The revenue must grow, peasant, give it up.