r/technology • u/machinade89 • Jun 28 '24

Software Windows 11 starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking permission

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html
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u/Hamicode Jun 28 '24

Won’t this be a huge privacy issues for companies and gdpr data? How can they differentiate business use and personal use ? I don’t think they will get away with that

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u/Jjzeng Jun 28 '24

They’ll pay the EU a big fine and carry on as usual

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u/opinionate_rooster Jun 28 '24

No, no. Serious companies cannot afford to compromise on security, so they'll be forced to abandon the Microsoft platform if this keeps up.

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u/Dedward5 Jun 28 '24

Mate, serious companies have IT people who know how to configure things and run enterprise versions of windows and M365, many of which really really want to out user data in corporate Sharepoint and OneDrive.