The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your #Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your Gmail email, contacts, and calendar data.
The "Learn More" link confirms:
"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."
I have been dying to talk about this and finally can.
Remember that 0-click Outlook vulnerability with a custom sound leading to NTLM theft? The one that MSFT themselves stated it originated and was being actively used by Russian actors?
@nachoskrnl found a way to bypass the patch to it. By adding one singular slash.
Shocking but not surprising: New #Microsoft#Outlook is phishing your mail account credentials without telling you, all it takes is try it out once. So, don't.
As always, better go with FOSS: @thunderbird
Usually phishing comes from shady people that need to jump through some hoops to try and get you. #Microsoft just thinks they can rob you in broad daylight.. crazy.
Wer nicht möchte, dass seine E-Mail-Zugangsdaten inklusive E-Mails an Microsoft abfließen, sollte ein alternatives E-Mail-Programm verwenden. Sofern "Neues Outlook" bereits im Einsatz ist, sollte das Konto gelöscht und anschließend die Zugangsdaten geändert werden. Eine mögliche Alternative: Thunderbird. 👇
Die aktuelle Diskussion um Outlook und die Weitergabe von Zugangsdaten und E-Mails an Microsoft ist wichtig. Noch wichtiger ist jedoch die konsequente Durchsetzung der bestehenden Gesetze, einschließlich der damit verbundenen Bußgelder. Microsoft wird nur dann reagieren, wenn es finanzielle Konsequenzen zu spüren bekommt. Bis dahin werden sie weiter behaupten, O365 sei datenschutzkonform und die Erde eine Scheibe. 😉
"Everyone talks about the privacy-washing (new window) campaigns of Google and Apple as they mine your online data to generate advertising revenue. But now it looks like Outlook is no longer simply an email service(new window); it’s a data collection mechanism for Microsoft’s 772 external partners and an ad delivery system for Microsoft itself."
⚠️ New concerns raised against #Microsoft, this time for the behaviour of the new #Outlook.
According to @heiseonline, the giant #tech company is requesting the transfer of emails and IMAP and SMTP credentials to their servers, thus giving them "full access to all emails".
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Germany, @bfdi, has said he will bring the topic up at a meeting of the European Data Protection Board taking place today.
Our tip: get away from #BigTech and switch to a powerful #mailclient that doesn’t compromise your privacy!
some users in Europe who download the new Outlook for Windows app, will see a modal (pop-up) that displays a user agreement, which mentions that Microsoft shares your data with 772 third-parties. Yes, you read that right, 772.
‼️ Vorsicht: Das neue #Outlook sendet Passwörter, Mails und andere Daten an Microsoft-Server.
Wir raten allen Privat- und Geschäftskunden dringend zu Alternativen wie Thunderbird oder unseren @mailbox_org Webmailer.
👉 Für Geschäftskunden kann die derartige (wenn auch ungewollte) Speicherung personenbezogener Daten übrigens ein bußgeldbelegter DSGVO-Verstoß darstellen.
‼️Achtung: #Microsoft krallt sich Zugangsdaten: Vorsicht vor dem neuen #Outlook. Ihr riskiert die Übertragung der IMAP- und SMTP-Zugangsdaten sowie sämtliche Mails!
👉 Nutzt dringend alternative Programme wie Thunderbird oder den @mailbox_org Webmailer.
Here are the survey result for which email client people are using. There were 511 participants.
Vivaldi : 11%
Thunderbird : 41%
Other : 24%
Webmail only : 24%
Good to see so many having switched to @Vivaldi. It is still early days. Also great to see that so many see the importance of using a mail client instead of Webmail only.