Comment by traceroute66
3 days ago
> EU governments keep auditing us, so we gotta stay on our toes, do things by the book
Erm, dude ....
IANAL, and I am sure most people do not need to be lawyers to figure out that not allowing people to permanently opt-out of photo scanning is almost certainly going to be in contravention of every EU law in the book.
I hope the EU take Microsoft to the cleaners over this one.
That's my point. I wish the company would only be composed of people who not only do things by the book, but also do the right thing. This kind of borderline (or across the border) garbage renders nil everyone else's efforts to be exemplary, poison the well of some sort. I'm not sure why they force you to scan photos, if I assume best intentions hopefully that's just that they really want you to use the feature ; but having met product managers with actual nefarious intents who wanted to find ways of circumventing the rules, there's a chance that it's a problem.
I understand that the company doesn't get the benefit of the doubt in such situations, especially when publicists "choose not to answer" why this feature is done like that. Great job there...
I'm also hoping we get a correction, be it the EU or just PR backlash. As I said, this is the kind of shit that makes me not want to have my name associated with the company.