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Ask Microsoft if They Plan to Use Our Personal Data to Train AI (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago by phonyphanty@pawb.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's 7 years old.

And is in fact how you should do this. Open and opt-in. The whole point we're angry here is that other companies do it without asking.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, I only noticed it yesterday.
I agree that it's better to be opt-in, rather it should be the only way, but I mean the whole concept seems twisted to me, I would doubt that Google too wouldn't use their other countless streams of data to feed their own datasets with the fake opt-in of account registration on top of that specific application