Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook

Agree this is bullshit, but at least there’s a Reject All button which is far more than we probably would have got prior to the introduction of GDPR.

reject() { accept(); } accept() { sendData(); }

If they did that, the EU would be on their heels.

You can bet they have been wary ever since the IE debacle.

Funny you say that. When I received this popup I noticed that hovering the mouse over one option, also highlights the other. Not suspicious at all!

I went on a site the other day, and a massive popup appeared before I could do anything.

“We Respect Your Privacy”

1200+ “data partners”.

Big blue “Accept” button.

Yeah, no you don’t.

“We value your privacy… At about $10,000”

Oh no, more about $2

Big brown ‘Eat 💩’ button

They mean we respect your privacy because we were forced to and we whined and bitched about it the whole time.

Wait until the EU tells them (funny enough that their own lawyers didn’t tell them?) that they are required to name each party specifically and together with the specific purpose of their data sharing.

They probably do in “Manage preferences”. Stuff you can give to an intern to accomplish has never been a deterrent.

That’s not what it’s there for. It’s not supposed to be a deterrent. The rule is there to be informative.

Think about what would happen if one of their partners was the police or the government. That would give them some pretty deep access that you may not want them to have.

Username checks out.

They probably do in “Manage preferences”.

That’s not sufficient. For asking any kind of consent, the complete & specific info must be given before. Like “I agree to things that you have (probably, hopefully :-)) written somewhere else” - that is no consent.

And they have the burden of proof.

Username checks out.

766 third parties

Facebook: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power

Facebook: “All third parties”

“How many third parties?”

“Yes.”

You know any third parties? Could you give them this copy of your data, thanks.

Outlook also sends all your email, including those from other accounts, to their cloud. No questions asked. Oh, also your password, because why not?

https://cybernews.com/privacy/new-outlook-copies-user-emails-to-microsoft-cloud/

Mails, passwords, calendars and contacts. Basically everything. Here’s another blog article: https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft

Sending the entire email content to their cloud isn’t that good.

However an advantage to doing so is to be able to use push notifications on the app without having to poll continuously the email address from the device. Which in return reduces the battery usage compared to constant polling.

However, they could have done something like spark mail, only get the email subject, sender and a little bit of the content to put into the noficiation then delete after the push notificdation has been sent.

Plot twist: he’s actually loading all your stuff into his cloud.

I’ll take a massive privacy breach for a bit more battery life any time. What could go wrong?

Can’t even turn autosave on for Word docs anymore without letting Microsoft save your shit to the cloud.

The clouds are hungry for your digital flesh and bones

See, Microsoft cares so much about you they’ll even make a backup of all of your emails, completely for free, without you even having to ask. And here you are complaining…

I hate with the intensity of a million suns that they always have this absolute fucking bullshit argument “For better experience”.

Or “for your security”

Privacy aside, not having your email offline on your device is objectively a poorer experience.

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