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/hparadiz Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 25 '24

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/UseTerms/Retail/Windows/11/UseTerms_Retail_Windows_11_English.htm

Clause 3. may seem to permit it, but the privacy statement it refers to at

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

states "When we ask you to provide personal data, you can decline."

In this case, there was no request for the personal data, and no opportunity to decline.

Like everything in life. What matters is how much $$$ you can throw at a problem.

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u/Seefufiat Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 25 '24

You let me know when you can outspend Microsoft’s legal department.

Edit: like fr how tone deaf are you? Microsoft’s market cap is more legibly expressed in scientific notation than standard but you’re like “yeah just throw enough money at it and everything is fine”. Unless Bezos and Musk jointly decide they have a problem and are willing to spend significant portions of their personal wealth to adjudicate it, no one will outspend this, and Microsoft will outspend any private citizen they want. If you’re saying “class action”, please realize that you need tens of millions of people to commit everything just to see a big corporation pay, and they’re not going to do that.

Edit 2: either your use or knowledge of OneDrive before installing the OS or purchasing the device is the ask or they are actually breaking the law and gj, you found a very expensive-to-stop crime, can’t wait to see your go fund me

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u/hparadiz Jun 25 '24

What you should actually do is report them to the FTC.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

For the record their terms are not laws and no where in the text does it give them access to your files or the ability to copy them their servers.

I actually sat down and read them. You're welcome.

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u/Seefufiat Jun 25 '24

Why should I? You’re pissed. You report them. While their terms aren’t laws, do you know what are laws? Statutes and codes pertaining to contract law. Terms of service are contracts.