Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

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@fifonetworks Given such practices from Adobe, there's no expectation that they'll respect the setting, or come up with a new way to undermine the user's choice in the future. The only sensible path forward is to stop using Adobe products altogether. There are plenty of alternatives.

@albertcardona @fifonetworks ...what's a good Adobe alternative for reading and signing PDFs? 🥹

Edit: on windows

@elduvelle @albertcardona @fifonetworks Firefox is pretty good. Probably can't do digital signing but you can draw a signature with it.
@neuralreckoning @elduvelle @albertcardona @fifonetworks I love Xodo for all things pdf. I use it for annotation on ipad and it's supported across mac, windows, linux and android as well.
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@iris @elduvelle @albertcardona @fifonetworks just tried it on my Surface and worked very nicely. Might try switching over to this for a while. Thanks for the recommendation!