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Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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According to Microsoft's documentation, a user can only change the setting to enable or disable the new People section three times a year.

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[–] 57 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If I hadn't abandoned OneDrive already, this would make me do so.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah but they are taking your data from the laptop your mum bought yesterday and put all the family vacation pictures on. Mum didn't know she had to kill off OneDrive or Microsoft will hoover up and monetise your memories.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Fortunately not... I'm generally the one responsible for IT maintenance with my parents' as they get older. Disabled OneDrive long ago since they don't use it.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    No, you really, truly can’t “rugged individualism” your way out of a societal problem. Remember that wedding you went to a few months ago? Someone uploaded this photos and now your social graph has been recorded. When your friend’s kid had a birthday party a few weeks ago? You were uploaded and graphed again. When you were out at that restaurant and you were in the background of someone’s date selfie? Graphed again.

    The only solution to this problem is real data protection law, like the GDPR in the EU.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oh, I definitely agree. We need better privacy and data protection laws here in Australia too. In the meantime, however, I do what I can to minimise my footprint. I'm well aware that other people are going to be the weak link!

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