<story><title>Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides</title><url>https://rogermexico.bearblog.dev/microsoft-is-phoning-home-the-content-of-your-powerpoint-slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>real_dogbert</author><text>Yeah, I&amp;#x27;m surprised every healthcare related business doesn&amp;#x27;t either ban PowerPoint or block this &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; somehow.  HIPAA is a hell of a drug.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve raised this point repeatedly in different orgs. It&amp;#x27;s met with some combination of indifference and lack of understanding and not-my-responsibility-ism, but I&amp;#x27;m sure that this will eventually blow up hard in some company&amp;#x27;s face - like 9-digit settlement for breach of contract, or worse things like breach of export control laws.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise data security on the &amp;quot;MS Office level&amp;quot; at this point is like driving 60 mph on a road with no lane dividers. You just pray that you never meet a drunk driver or someone texting in oncoming traffic who suddenly swerves into your lane. You pray that none of your employees click the wrong button and bankrupt the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>Powerpoint is the raison d&amp;#x27;etre of an entire class of middling bureaucrats.  They&amp;#x27;ll fight tooth and nail to protect their turf and preserve their role in society.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides</title><url>https://rogermexico.bearblog.dev/microsoft-is-phoning-home-the-content-of-your-powerpoint-slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>real_dogbert</author><text>Yeah, I&amp;#x27;m surprised every healthcare related business doesn&amp;#x27;t either ban PowerPoint or block this &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; somehow.  HIPAA is a hell of a drug.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve raised this point repeatedly in different orgs. It&amp;#x27;s met with some combination of indifference and lack of understanding and not-my-responsibility-ism, but I&amp;#x27;m sure that this will eventually blow up hard in some company&amp;#x27;s face - like 9-digit settlement for breach of contract, or worse things like breach of export control laws.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise data security on the &amp;quot;MS Office level&amp;quot; at this point is like driving 60 mph on a road with no lane dividers. You just pray that you never meet a drunk driver or someone texting in oncoming traffic who suddenly swerves into your lane. You pray that none of your employees click the wrong button and bankrupt the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m surprised every healthcare related business doesn&amp;#x27;t either ban PowerPoint or block this &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; somehow.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I work in healthcare, and the legal department bars me from using Google Analytics for HIPAA reasons.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, IT made Chrome the only browser the employees are allowed to use on every Windows machine in the org.</text></comment>