HELP! Microsoft Updating Services Agreement - Sept 30, 2023

#1

Has anyone researched the “fine print” to find out what’s changed?

You’re receiving this email because we are updating the Microsoft Services Agreement, which applies to one or more Microsoft products or services you use. We’re making these updates to clarify our terms and ensure that they remain transparent for you, as well as to cover new Microsoft products, services and features.
The Microsoft Services Agreement is an agreement between you and Microsoft (or one of its affiliates) that governs your use of Microsoft consumer online products and services.
You can read the entire Microsoft Services Agreement here. You can also learn more about these updates on our FAQ page here, including a summary of the most notable changes. The updates to the Microsoft Services Agreement will take effect on September 30, 2023. If you continue to use our products and services on or after September 30, 2023, you are agreeing to the updated Microsoft Services Agreement.
If you do not agree, you can choose to discontinue using the products and services, and close your Microsoft account before these terms become effective. If you are a parent or guardian, you are responsible for your child’s or teenager’s use of Microsoft products and services, including purchases.
Thank you for using Microsoft products and services.

#2

I’ve got a debt-based promissory note that says the small print runs, “We own you, slave.”

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#3

I received that same email two weeks ago … I did look at it but as per usual … it would take a speed reader with a law degree 3 years to get thru it … That’s how “they” get your compliance …

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#4

TL;DR: Microsoft reserves the right to process your data as it sees fit; to sell or otherwise distribute this data to any and all third parties it chooses; to retain your data for its own use for as long as the law allows, or as long as it can evade such laws; to use your data in order to develop its own technology, without remunerating you or acknowledging your contribution; to use the technology thus developed and data thus gathered in order to manipulate you in manifold, undeclared ways for the ends of Microsoft and its affiliates, including but not limited to governmental, corporate, military and intelligence establishments, etc.

If you need to read the small print to understand the contract, you shouldn’t be using the service.

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#5

C:\DIR: CTRL ALT DEL

[ @ wordpress, this is a complete sentence.
Thank you once again, O wordpress-god, for allowing me this meagre post.]

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#6

This brings up an interesting question.
What will be the tipping point when you ditch all tech, move to a cabin and become a Luddite? Can/will it ever happen? What a thought huh?

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#7

Possibly that will be when we all agree to go “back” to using magico-spiritual tech, such as ancient peoples did, but without the luciferian/satanic parts.

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