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You did consent to it, in the fine print. Unfortunately.
Which is why GDPR has the concept of "informed consent", which is a fancy way of saying "consent hidden in the fine print doesn't count".
That seems the salient issue today with regards to children and social media. Most of the giant social media companies profit from participants who cannot legally enrol.
"Informed Consent is just a theory. Besides [other app] already spies on you so who cares? Whaddareya doing in PowerPoint that's so sekret?"
I look forward to the day when PowerPoint is banned due to enterprise security concerns.
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.
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.
I suppose it could/should be more obvious/explicit on the Designer pane itself, something like "This is an online feature that uses Microsoft's servers to generate recommendations", or a more user-friendly language.
Note however that the article is light on details; does it send a full content of slides? Some hash of text and images? A non-identifiable abstraction of layers involved? This could be done well or poorly.
(I don't think the submission should be flagged FWIW, but I agree that it's not of good enough quality to deserve great ranking; but that's of course subjective:)
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.
> Did we consent to this? I did. I guess the author didn't read the T&Cs.
Trying to call people out for not doing so or not understanding the technological reason why data is sent doesn't seem productive.
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.
So you agree that Microsoft sends the content of your Powerpoint slides (and, by extension, all DoD powerpoint slides, since they're notorious users of the application) to Microsoft?