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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

This is really wild: Microsoft is pushing more and more #spyware features into everyday products to steal all of your data:

"#Copilot #Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall [...] is designed to analyze everything you do on your computer [...] by capturing constant screenshots and feeding them to an optical character recognition system and a large language model for analysis – but where #Recall works locally, #CopilotVision sends the data off to #Microsoft servers." 🕵️

theregister.com/2024/05/28/mic

I would never ever trust a Windows system not to send out anything I do.

The Register · Microsoft's Recall preview doesn't need a Copilot+ PC to runBy Richard Speed
#surveillance#companyespionage#LLM
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David

@glynmoody Of course they would. Hence: "To make this happen, EU (and other) governments can require it as a condition of continuing to do business with Microsoft (and other multinationals)."

If they develop, publish, and budget for a plausible plan to transition off all #Microsoft software and infrastructure over the next, say, four or five years, that can be the shot across the bow. If they do so not by naming Microsoft, but by characterizing in legislation digital infrastructure suppliers based on their headquarters, the nationality and residence of their officers, and the nationality and residence of their shareholders, they give Microsoft an intentional loophole. Then the only way to retain that revenue is to restructure, as outlined above.

Miguel Afonso Caetano

"I just want to be clear here: the price of my plan did not change. Instead, Microsoft moved me to a new plan that contained generative AI features I never asked for; a plan that cost a lot more than I was already paying. Then it lied to me, claiming my existing plan had increased in price and that there was no version of a plan without generative AI — until I tried to stop paying them altogether.

Deceptive practices like this are part of the reason so many people not only increasingly despise the tech monopolies, but also see generative AI as a giant scam. I have little doubt that if Lina Khan was still heading up the US Federal Trade Commission that this is something she’d be looking into; it’s such a clear example of the abuses she used to take on. But now that a Trump crony is in that position instead, tech companies can get away with ripping off and lying to their customers, as Microsoft just did to me and millions of others.

I’m not trying to claim I’m the first person to notice Microsoft doing this; I’m expressing how furious I was when I saw how deceptively the company was acting toward me to fund its generative AI ambitions."

disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-w

Disconnect · I’ve had it with MicrosoftBy Paris Marx
#Microsoft#MicrosoftOffice#Microsoft365
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