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M365 PPT and Word contents leak to US servers
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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This is different : no sync to other Cloud services enabled. This is not disaster recovery or backup, file contents are sent thru json. You use your Word / PPT application locally, and without your knowledge file contents are sent to US servers at the augloop.office.com endpoint. This is a clear privacy and confidentiality risk. It is bundled with the "connected experience" services, and the only way to deactivate it today is thru a registry key in Windows. And it's the default behaviour, the user is not informed. This breaches several GDPR principles, not to speak about MS spying on your confidential contents when using a local install of their software on your PC.