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The text on that page is extraordinarily misleading, if indeed "Connected experiences" are sending your data to MS servers. Nothing on the page is explicit abou

The text on that page is extraordinarily misleading, if indeed "Connected experiences" are sending your data to MS servers. Nothing on the page is explicit about the apps sending your data to MS, the only hint that this is happening is the footnote that these "Connected experiences" do not work if you are not connected to the Internet. For example, here is the description of the first type of such experiences: > Connected experiences that analyze your content > Connected experiences that analyze your content are experiences that use your Office content to provide you with design recommendations, editing suggestions, data insights, and similar features. For example, PowerPoint Designer or Translator. > The following table provides a list of connected experiences that analyze your content and also provides links to more information about them. They are going to quite long lengths to avoid mentioning where the data is analyzed.

jeroenhd 4y ago
The consent popup that shows up before you enable these features explicitly talks about sending document content to Microsoft. Their privacy policy is unreadable just like any other big tech company's is, but I don't think a normal user who's actually read the popup before clicking "OK" can miss that document content is being sent to Microsoft. I think it's safe to say that nobody reads consent popups and just clicks okay to make the magical prompts disappear but there's only so much you can do when you offer online stuff in your offline program. I don't think it's reasonable to expect three or four popups that say "are you really really really sure?" before enabling such a feature, especially since everything is probably being synced to Onedrive anyway. Furthermore, the target audience of the page I've linked isn't general end users, it's for administrators managing company wide Office installs. I don't have Office installed so I don't have the exact link the prompts try to direct you to, but there's probably a better privacy page that you can find from within an Office install.

jeroenhd 4y ago

The consent popup that shows up before you enable these features explicitly talks about sending document content to Microsoft. Their privacy policy is unreadable just like any other big tech company's is, but I don't think a normal user who's actually read the popup before clicking "OK" can miss that document content is being sent to Microsoft. I think it's safe to say that nobody reads consent popups and just clicks okay to make the magical prompts disappear but there's only so much you can do when you offer online stuff in your offline program. I don't think it's reasonable to expect three or four popups that say "are you really really really sure?" before enabling such a feature, especially since everything is probably being synced to Onedrive anyway. Furthermore, the target audience of the page I've linked isn't general end users, it's for administrators managing company wide Office installs. I don't have Office installed so I don't have the exact link the prompts try to direct you to, but there's probably a better privacy page that you can find from within an Office install.