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Microsoft, which purchased Skype in 2011, will soon increase its monitoring of Skype and other services. Starting May 1st they will further examine ostensibly private communicatiosn for 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' for the purpose of blocking. The changes are rolled out as part of a new terms of service advisory for the company's many services.
Microsoft will ban 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services on May 1, claiming it has the right to go through your private data to 'investigate.'
From IDG's CSO : Microsoft to ban 'offensive language' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:28AM (2 children)
So, if you BUY Microsoft Office and install it locally you can create any damned thing you want. RENT a version in their cloud and they plunder through your work and decide day by day whether they want to continue allowing you to use your documents. Of course they are making it harder and harder to just own a copy outright. Which is why you should be migrating to Open/LibreOffice. And unless Microsoft really does finally allow an opt-out on the keystroke loging and other spyware, timt to migrate off Windows entirely. Everyone SHOULD have done that a decade or two ago because of the security problems, but the privacy issue is now acute.
And while your documents are in their cloud, apparently every other corporation can mine it for advertising, governments can plunder it for crime think and outright crimes. Assuming some hacker doesn't just download all of it.
And don't just bitch about Microsoft here, move your files to Google and see what changes. Nothing. And you can hop between em all, there won't be more than a few months difference in EULA changes because they are herd animals. Especially now that Facebook is being made an example of. They were the laggard in politically correct banhammering (they do it too, but not as aggressive and with insufficient zeal) so it looks like they are going to be destroyed as an example to the others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:19PM
yeah yeah
real businesses don't care though because the IT people that say these things were replaced by H1Bs or simply the job is gone in a foreign land where H1Bs aren't needed.
And the executives aren't worried about employees encountering privacy violating things on company time. They are worried about reducing the costs.
This cloud thing... did you read any MS marketing material? What they give to the sales people? they AVOID the IT department, and go straight to leadership and finance managers. They express the costs, the affect on the bottom line, and how much they can save by getting rid of the server people that helped make MS who they are today.
Export to azure, run hybrid for a while, and... eventually you will be locked-in, mostly sooner than later.
It was bad enough to use all MS products before. But now you can't even pull the plug and be isolated with your purchase. Instead if you do that, you lose everything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @11:55PM
Sex workers are reporting that their Google Drive files are mysteriously locked or vanishing.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgwnp/porn-on-google-drive-error [vice.com]