PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge
We recorded 6 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 4 can’t be checked. 1 more is held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (6)
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
“If you have anything at all private or sensitive in Office documents, you might want to do the same.”
What we tested: 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.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“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.”
What we tested: Every big tech company is desperate for AI training data.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“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.”
What we tested: More companies will follow an opt-out playbook to collect training data, hiding it in obscure settings and Terms of Service.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“Be on your guard; it’s going to happen a lot.”
What we tested: Covert opt-out scraping of user data for AI training will happen a lot.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“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.”
What we tested: None of us stand any chance against big tech unless we stand together.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“If we don’t, they will walk all over all of us.”
What we tested: If we don't stand together, big tech will walk all over all of us.
Held from this post (1)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The record does not meet the current rules. Our reading, not assessed: Microsoft is apparently scraping private documents of at least some, maybe most, Office subscribers.