I’ve seen a few of these insane AI privacy violations by Microsoft today - I’m assuming from the same event. In every article, Microsoft insists “its okay cause all the data is on the user’s device”.

First of all, I don’t trust a word they say. Second, I’m sure there is some other service by them that would pick these files up and send them to Microsoft anyway. Third, unless the AI is running locally, they need to send that data to their servers for this to function. Fourth, I guarantee this “local” promise will get quietly dropped the millisecond they think they can get away with it. Fifth, these tech companies have been acting in such bad faith they should be hit with an insane amount of regulations at the very least.

I’m generally not against AI, but Microsoft absolutely cannot be trusted with any of this.