Companies, Governments and privacy gurus (myself) are becoming 10x more risk averse when it comes to your data. Data that might seem so minute and unimportant can be used to identify you in a second. It could reveal your location, your age and even when you are going to the bathroom. So you can see why the government and companies are taking the steps to gather as much data as they can as well as building an impenetrable wall around their own data. Their data could be worth millions in the corporate case, or cost a country a war in the governmental case. When it comes to companies who have consumer who use their product. Wouldn’t you think it would be best practice to find out as much data on their core customer to further market to them and grow the profits. The boards think so!
How they obtain your data
They do this is in many ways and most of them are unethical.
Let’s take a look at facebook. They are notoriously known for gathering data in ways that seem unethical. This data is then used and sold to advertiser to get the right demographic for a certain product. Then when you buy it makes them money. In this link they talk about how facebook illegally processed user data. All they have to do? Pay a small settlement that is a fraction of the profit they made on using the data illegally. This kind of precedent has been set with the past 40 years of big pharma lawsuits. So why wouldn’t big tech take advantage of the big corporate judges and reap the rewards.
Where Microsoft comes into Play
Well if your like me you love the functionality of Powerpoint, Word and Excel. With great software like that there comes with the huge drawback. Some may think its the price on the front end. but they don’t know about the price they pay on the back end. This price comes in the form of no privacy. Microsoft at anytime can look at your spreadsheets and any data associated with your account. How do we know this? You have to read inbetween the lines on Microsoft privacy policy page.
Quote from Microsoft Privacy Policy Page
Microsoft collects data from you, through our interactions with you and through our products. You provide some of this data directly, and we get some of it by collecting data about your interactions, use, and experiences with our products. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Microsoft and the choices you make, including your privacy settings and the products and features you use. We also obtain data about you from third parties.
This is straight up saying you they take any data they want that you provide. So why wouldn’t they be reading your private business data that could help succeed in their ventures or steal your ideas. Ultimately this leaves us with the question on how we protect our data while using Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
How to use Office 365 without internet
Because Microsoft “has” to constantly check that a user has licensure they need internet connection to have access to the software leaving a hole for all your documents to be read.
First you have to Buy Office 2019 License. This can be done normally or anonymously.
Anonymously purchasing Office 2019 is very easy. You can go to any grocery store and purchase a Visa Gift card with cash. Then use this Visa Gift card for the purchase while filling out any name in the personal information.
Next once the license is connected it only has to be recognized that one time meaning you can disconnect from the internet. This allows you to create, edit and delete without the Sauron Eye of big tech always watching over you.
