Class action comedy: Is Microsoft stealing its business customers data? (Uh, no)

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Whats even more remarkable is that, if these allegations are true (again, a very very very big if), then multiple other sources with far more technical resources have somehow missed Microsofts blatant violations of their business customers privacy. Most notably, as I went through the allegations trying to figure out what they really meant, I didnt have the luxury of footnotes that would include links to the Microsoft-owned web pages that purportedly prove these privacy violations. Indeed, in my Office 365 commercial account (a subscription thats identical to those used by the plaintiffs), the admin panel contains this exact setting: But if I want to change the Outlook Web App mailbox policy to exclude Facebook contact sync, the option isnt there at all. Heres the key paragraph from the complaint: Again, theres no footnote, but the quoted text appears to be from a developer document titled "Overview of people and workplace intelligence in Microsoft Graph. Business customer data is stored within the tenant, not intermingled with the Microsoft cloud at large (And if it were genuinely happening, I suspect it would have drawn serious attention from EU privacy agencies long ago.

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