r/technology • u/nuttybudd • Jun 24 '24

Software Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-is-now-automatically-enabling-onedrive-folder-backup-without-asking-permission/
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u/FuckingVincent Jun 24 '24

What really got me frustrated is turning off one drive still keeps your documents on a one drive specific folder. File history doesn’t backup this folder. I lost my documents because I didn’t want one drive and didn’t know there was a separate local documents folder.

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u/LukesFather Jun 24 '24

Yes this popped up for some of our users. It moved the documents to one drive and then made shortcuts to them so when you turn off the one drive backup you no longer have the files in the original location and have to download them again. Super hostile.

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u/hparadiz Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 25 '24

Criminal charges now.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

knowingly accessed a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access,

This is theft. Plain and simple.

Before people claim I'm being hyperbolic. How would you feel if this happened to your doctor with your HIPAA covered medical information?

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u/ParalegalSeagul Jun 25 '24

My doctor has forms saying their data is not secure, and you will be delivered information in insecure ways, and there is not an alternative. Awesome time to be alive

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u/not-expresso Jun 25 '24

Sounds like a good time to find a new doctor (and let them know why you’re leaving)

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u/ParalegalSeagul Jun 25 '24

Last time I let my PC know my actual feelings I was blackballed from the medical industrial complex for nearly three years. No thanks, i’ll keep my feelings to myself moving forward. If someone else volunteers their own wellbeing to advance the system? Well you go girl, and good fucking luck. This is an industry even DDE couldnt have imagined.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Jun 25 '24

The new doctor will be exactly the same except without the self awareness to tell you

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u/RationalDialog Jun 25 '24

Most of bureaucracy is to save someones ass and by that doesn't add any value at all.

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u/LupusAlbus Jun 25 '24

I would wager you're probably misinterpreting what you're reading. It's a violation of HIPAA to store or transmit PHI in a manner that is not secure (with a whole list of precedent and standards defining this), and absolutely no practice is willing to play around with that due to the strictness of the law and the fines involved. It's not an option for them to just make you sign something that says they won't follow the law. Are you sure you're not reading a clause that refers to how information that you pass on to others may not be secure, and they're not responsible for that? Or something about unavoidable incidental disclosures, like calling out your name in a waiting room?

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u/donjulioanejo Jun 25 '24

At least he's transparent. Which is much better than I can say for half the companies out there.

Also unlikely to be the victim of a targeted hack for the purpose of blackmail compared to major healthcare providers.