Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.
Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.
Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.
How does that work for anyone working on confidential documents? Or classified ones? Are MS office products now a no-go for these applications, or is there a verified way to turn it off? Does the application run on an air-gapped network?
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Despite the "wisdom" of so many experts on the internet, Microsoft makes the bulk of its profit from businesses, not consumers, and businesses tend to be even more sensitive to the confidentiality of their documents than consumers are. So Microsoft is well aware of how expensive (to Microsoft) any breach of confidentiality would be - far more expensive than the imaginery profits that the internet experts insist are being made by surveilling those customers.
But how does it work then? If the program connects to the internet and exchanges data with external servers, how does the customer know, control, and verify what is being sent, and what can be sent?
I'm aware of their shenanigans. I was more wondering about how it would work in an environment with some negotiating power and competent/paranoid IT security people, say a big company or a government agency.
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