"Spying": I know some of you don't care about software spying on you, but Microsoft Office gathers lots of info, virtually anything you enter on the kbd. Germany has removed Office...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I know some of you don't care about software spying on you, but Microsoft Office gathers lots of info, virtually anything you enter on the kbd. Germany has removed Office from schools because of this. If you enter stock information into a spreadsheet, MS know that you have some interest in that stock. Even if you are not online, Office saves info that it wants and sends it along when you go online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3L7bLYz-mk

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Helping Big Brother?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

bobmcculloch wrote:

Helping Big Brother?

Big Brother, Big Business, and Microsoft.

Red6

jerryc41 wrote:

I know some of you don't care about software spying on you, but Microsoft Office gathers lots of info, virtually anything you enter on the kbd. Germany has removed Office from schools because of this. If you enter stock information into a spreadsheet, MS know that you have some interest in that stock. Even if you are not online, Office saves info that it wants and sends it along when you go online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3L7bLYz-mk

I am sure Microsoft is not the only entity, corporation, government agency, web company, etc., that tracks and records every keystroke on our computers. There are probably keywords or websites visited that once entered would trigger more detailed surveillance of your online activities from some online observer.

The only way to completely ensure privacy is to use one of the dark web browsers which in itself may cause interest in your web activities.

justthisonce Loc: Tetepare

jerryc41 wrote:

I know some of you don't care about software spying on you, but Microsoft Office gathers lots of info, virtually anything you enter on the kbd.

Just Google'd the question "how many Microsoft Office and Office 365 users in the world?"

Turns out there are something like 300 million Office 365 users and 1.5 billion standalone Microsoft Office users.

Dang, I'd like to be the sales rep who won the contract to sell them disk drives that'll hold all that keyboard data and the massive servers it'll take to analyze it -- let alone the bandwith it'd take just to receive it all.

Or, from what I hear from the fan boys, they could do it all on a single iPhone 14.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

justthisonce wrote:

Just Google'd the question "how many Microsof... (show quote)

Let’s just say that the NSA buys lots of storage and leave it at that.

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

TriX wrote:

Let’s just say that the NSA buys lots of storage and leave it at that.

Not wittingly