Cloud Services Leak Your Data

Big Brother is watching what you write. Chinese users working on the local equivalent of Google Docs discovered that there are some things you can’t write. An author was locked out of the novel she was writing, with the system telling her that she was trying to access “sensitive content.” It didn’t matter that she wrote herself.

Of course, Google would never lock you out of your Docs or Sheets. And they claim they don’t look at your documents to sell you ads, though plenty of users report spooky coincidences. The default setting in Microsoft producs is to enable “Connected Experiences.” That means your content is being sent to Microsoft servers for analysis. Microsoft claims no human looks at it.

Do you have guidelines and technical measures in place to prevent sensitive data leaking out of your organization through cloud services?

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