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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)
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[-] con_fig@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] brb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Can confirm. These fuckers are gonna slapped with the mother of all fines

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

EU: best can do is 0.5% of global revenue

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