After Office Software Outage, Microsoft Faces Allegations of Data Scraping in Word and Excel Reports that the tech giant is taking user data through its best known business software to train its ...

The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

Microsoft has quietly rolled out an AI feature that automatically accesses your data in Word and Excel documents. The company introduced Connected Experiences on all of its Microsoft 365 apps last ...