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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)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Wow, if that's true, I hope the EU imposes significant fines, and not in two years...