PowerPoint has a feature where it uses machine learning to suggest layout and design changes for your content. This feature most likely can be turned off, but of course it needs some data on what's on your slide to suggest changes. I hope this submission is flagged and removed. Just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean such misrepresentation is okay.
Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
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#22"Informed Consent is just a theory. Besides [other app] already spies on you so who cares? Whaddareya doing in PowerPoint that's so sekret?"
In our companies slides we have tons of confidential slides containing info that could be misused for insider trading by MS engineers?
Edit: Nvm, I think I am wrong.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092616/how-i...
>Another way that insider trading can occur is if non-company employees—such as those from government regulators or accounting firms, law firms, or brokerages—gain material nonpublic information from their clients and use that information for their personal gain.
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#23For example there have been numerous claims made previously that link ANY network traffic to a supposed invasion of privacy, but once you delve into the underlying traffic it isn't nearly as nefarious as it initially seemed.
This article is telling you to "open up the network monitor of your choice" but network traffic and CONTENT are apples Vs. oranges, and yet we're meant to draw conclusions from that? We're meant to know Microsoft are taking your slide's content whole-hog? Isn't that yet to be determined?
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#24PowerPoint has a feature where it uses machine learning to suggest layout and design changes for your content. This feature most likely can be turned off, but of course it needs some data on what's on your slide to suggest changes. I hope this submission is flagged and removed. Just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean such misrepresentation is okay.
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#25PowerPoint has a feature where it uses machine learning to suggest layout and design changes for your content. This feature most likely can be turned off, but of course it needs some data on what's on your slide to suggest changes. I hope this submission is flagged and removed. Just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean such misrepresentation is okay.
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#26Chrome:
Settings > Sync and Google Services > Make searches and browsing better
Edge:
Settings > Privacy, Search and services > Personalize your web experience
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#27I look forward to the day when PowerPoint is banned due to enterprise security concerns.
How about Grammarly? Or G-suite? They have access to most of the companies out there. I find it terrifying people use Grammarly and it has access to every piece of confidential word written.
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#28The next era will be of Offline Apps because of stuff like this
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#29I look forward to the day when PowerPoint is banned due to enterprise security concerns.
Which it's not going to happen anytime soon, so PowerPoint can literally be a bomb inside their organizations they'll still insist in using it.
If these phone-home allegations are true it's one more case where you spend $50K in an hightech driveway gate but have no fence around the property.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
In our companies slides we have tons of confidential slides containing info that could be misused for insider trading by MS engineers?
It would not be insider trading if done by people outside your company. Edit: Nvm, I think I am wrong. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092616/how-i... >Another way that insider trading can occur is if non-company employees—such as those from government regulators or accounting firms, law firms, or brokerages—gain material nonpublic information from their clients and use that information for their pers…