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M365 PPT and Word contents leak to US servers (www.linkedin.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This link is in French but as a summary: technical report shows that M365 Word and PPT contents leak to US servers (augloop.office.com) as soon as you open a document on a local installation of Powerpoint or Word, unbeknownst to users.

This is potentially huge!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i remember predicting this in "privacy" communities a long time ago and all i got was seething mouths and gnashing teeth from "privacy" advocates for some reason defending Microsoft?