PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge
We recorded 4 claims from this post. 4 can’t be checked. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (4)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“If you have anything at all private or sensitive in Office documents, you might want to do the same.”
Our reading: Office users who have anything at all private or sensitive in their Office documents might want to switch off the 'optional connected experiences' setting, as Marcus did.
No horizon
Scope: if you have anything at all private or sensitive in Office documents
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“Every big tech company is desperate for training data, and we can expect more companies following the same sly opt-out playbook, hiding what is going in obscure settings and Terms of Service nobody reads.”
Our reading: Every big tech company is desperate for AI training data.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“The key point of my recent book Taming Silicon Valley is directly relevant here: none of us stand any chance against big tech unless we stand together.”
Our reading: None of us stand any chance against big tech unless we stand together.
No horizon
Qualifier: unless we stand together
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“If we don’t, they will walk all over all of us.”
Our reading: If we don't stand together, big tech will walk all over all of us.
No horizon
Qualifier: if we don't stand together