disclaimer: MS employee, this is solely my opinion
Does the GDPR do anything to put your concerns on this issue to rest?
(By those regulations, MS is required, under penalty of very large fines, to not do what you are accusing them of doing.)
Does the GDPR do anything to put your concerns on this issue to rest?
(By those regulations, MS is required, under penalty of very large fines, to not do what you are accusing them of doing.)
However, I'm probably less informed on GDPR than the average HN user, so it's very possible that my understanding is off-base or incomplete.
If the company starts doing things right ONLY after there's some legislation making the wrong thing illegal, what does that tell you about the company?
We did a lot of work to comply and provide these tools and people still think MS is part of some grand conspiracy.
Given Microsoft's history I'm not sure why you're surprised.