Monday, November 22, 2021

Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks? (MSFT; EVIL)

First up, Schneier on Security:

I received email from two people who told me that Microsoft Edge enabled synching without warning or consent, which means that Microsoft sucked up all of their bookmarks. Of course they can turn synching off, but it’s too late.

Has this happened to anyone else, or was this user error of some sort? If this is real, can some reporter write about it?....

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And the HT to ExtremeTech for "Microsoft Enables Edge Sync By Default, Hoovering Up Your Data in the Process". 

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