One Drive captured and stored my data without having an account (speculation)

I wouldn't rely on that as your evidence it was syncing. Plenty of things have nag messages like that when you disable them.

ETA: wwilson beat me to it.
 
SeaJay said:
I suspect the use of Windows 11 can do many things Microsoft related without our knowledge.
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That is my "beef" with this and like issues.

I have zero to hide from anyone--- yet I am not willinging giving some IT guy(s) access to my data because I am lazy.
 
GON said:
I will keep my views of IT guy(s) to myself, as some would be very offended.
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Whatever your views are on "IT Guys" - That is quite a specific thing to have a view on - Other than a very, very, very important warrant I promise you that you are not nearly important enough for a company to pay a human to put eyes on your emails. Robots examine your data and have already - despite whatever feeble attempts you've made otherwise - pieced together an alarmingly precise picture of you, your mind, and most importantly your shopping and viewing habits.
 
uc50ic4more said:
Whatever your views are on "IT Guys" - That is quite a specific thing to have a view on - Other than a very, very, very important warrant I promise you that you are not nearly important enough for a company to pay a human to put eyes on your emails. Robots examine your data and have already - despite whatever feeble attempts you've made otherwise - pieced together an alarmingly precise picture of you, your mind, and most importantly your shopping and viewing habits.
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One of my favorite "IT Guy(s) stories was when I transferred to Utah some years back.

I needed to get an organization computer. Did all the required paperwork to standard, waited a week, and no computer. I emailed and called the IT guy(s) for another week, still no computer. Another week I went to their building, and rang the bell as it was secured, no answer ever.

Then I remembered that when I turned in the paperwork, the IT guy(s) had a camera at the entrance, with a monitor showing who was at the door. BINGO. I rang their bell non-stop, until they came to the door. Seemed they forgot to put in a bell mute switch in their little secure compound. The ringing of their door non-stop was the only way to get the IT guy(s) to respond. They were watching me come to their building for a week, and ignoring me............. probably laughing....... hopefully I had the last laugh, but surely I didn't as I would put money the IT guy(s) installed a mute feature on their doorbell, after I found a way to crack their code.
 
GON said:
One of my favorite "IT Guy(s) stories was when I transferred to Utah some years back.

I needed to get an organization computer. Did all the required paperwork to standard, waited a week, and no computer. I emailed and called the IT guy(s) for another week, still no computer. Another week I went to their building, and rang the bell as it was secured, no answer ever.

Then I remembered that when I turned in the paperwork, the IT guy(s) had a camera at the entrance, with a monitor showing who was at the door. BINGO. I rang their bell non-stop, until they came to the door. Seemed they forgot to put in a bell mute switch in their little secure compound. The ringing of their door non-stop was the only way to get the IT guy(s) to respond. They were watching me come to their building for a week, and ignoring me............. probably laughing....... hopefully I had the last laugh, but surely I didn't as I would put money the IT guy(s) installed a mute feature on their doorbell, after I found a way to crack their code.
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Oh, man. My wife is a high school teacher and has a few of those herself! What's worse is that for us, I could solve all of her tech problems but cannot access the devices.
 
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As another IT guy, sorry the IT department for the place you worked sucked I guess? That is a management issue, not an industry issue.

99% of us who do not work for a 3-letter agency whose sole assignment for that week is to surveil you, do not get any thrill out of snooping through your data. Again, if we even could. Nefarious methods aside, there isn't a desirably easy way to do so.
 
Yeah they are trying to give out "free samples" on everything using their Windows as a gateway. I don't like it but I am still using a not activated Windows at home so I can't really complain.

For work though our IT just put everything on OneDrive: Desktop, My Documents, etc. People put like 900GB of stuff on their desktop and it literally stalled their system and network. Once I found out I told everyone to stop it, and keep their Desktop empty. One guy we had was still on DSL 1.5Mbps upload so it was real bad for him.

Worst thing is we had some legacy software installer assuming C:\Windows\Desktop is the right name and OneDrive Desktop changed it, and broke the installer. We had a bunch of people wasted 2 days trying to sort that out and manually install that thing.

Windows Hello is the worst. They took away like 20% of my CPU cycles permanently trying to enforce my security through my webcam. I caught it once turn on the thing and spy on me. Not sure if it is an IT screw up but after that I just uninstall my webcam from Device Manager, put a tape over my webcam, and call it a day. I want my 20% CPU back.

If I absolutely need a webcam I would plug a USB one in when I need it.
 
GON said:
That is my "beef" with this and like issues.

I have zero to hide from anyone--- yet I am not willinging giving some IT guy(s) access to my data because I am lazy.
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It is never yours if it is your employers' laptop. You have no say over that.

Your personal laptop then that's a different story.
 
Bottom_Feeder said:
As an 'IT guy' myself, that's an awfully specific situation to form such a wide negative opinion of my people.
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Being abusive to another employee in the same workplace gets most people fired. I am not happy with a lot of their policy but it is not something personal to the staff themselves. I just complain to my boss if there is an IT policy that stalled my work and let the VP etc deal with it, or pay for something from outside service to do it instead of our own people to work around the IT.

Sometimes buying a separate personal set of devices and not mixing with the corp one is the easier and cheaper solution. This include taking smart device off grid and make them 100% safe (yeah if you desolder the ethernet port out of the board it will be very convincing). We have a technician in our dept.
 
PandaBear said:
For work though our IT just put everything on OneDrive: Desktop, My Documents, etc.
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Ours did the same a while ago. No notice, just log in one day and it took over. Funny thing is we have 58 different security apps/firewalls/rules etc, but now I can access everything on Onedrive in the cloud and work from my personal computer. I am WFH, well work from customer site or home or hotel. Much better for me!
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If I absolutely need a webcam I would plug a USB one in when I need it.
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Every PC I have ever had has a bandaid over the camera. The cotton part keeps it clean. When I need a webcam I just peel one side back.
 
PandaBear said:
It is never yours if it is your employers' laptop. You have no say over that.

Your personal laptop then that's a different story.
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This is my personal laptop, I am unable to change a single thing in employer assigned computer.
 
Block it with a firewall or everthing you do will get copied with or without an account. These big companies don't ask permission anymore. It's just like driving down the road and being tracked by every WiFi router you drive past, even though these big guys aren't paying the bill they still use your devices without permission.

If anyone knows how to block google WiFi tracking on a Mobil device let me know. I have yet to get it to stop on android.
 
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