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[–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft has been doing this for years. It was with Onedrive at first but now that they've enabled "analytics" in every product that might connect to the internet they can have it all searched.

Supposedly it is first filtered by algorithms but that shit is still being uploaded somewhere other than your hard drive.

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

    I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can't remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.

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