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If you configure any IMAP account in Outlook, it will store your password and cache mail data in Azure.



I'm not following. Is there a TOS loophole around "cache mail data in Azure" that permits my paid account email data to be handled differently by Microsoft than, say, Chase bank handles my financial data stored somewhere in their cloud? And password? Are you claiming they have a pain text store of my password?

The expectation is generally that your message data in a free account is subject to being used for some internal purpose.

But we don't expect paid account message data to be used in any way. We pay for the service and the storage.

Maybe my expectations, while possibly naive, are nevertheless baseline and subject to change from new information.


And now you are rightfully wondering about how Chase is using your financial data...


No. I'm not. It's not the point what [company x] is doing with our data *internally*. I accept this is the age we live in. Besides, insurance and banks are the OGs of data and risk and have been mining our data for centuries.

What new are the "Free" products. I'm wondering about is the Moral Relativism and corruption of those developers, project managers, and leadership of "free" projects on the business class developers, project managers, and leadership.


You're not concerned about how Chase is selling your transactions to third parties?


Oh, I thought this was "new Outlook" that replaced Mail and not O365 Outlook.

The same way we had multiple Skype's and they were dramatically different. Is this not the case anymore? Is "new Outlook" the replacement for all Mail/Outlooks?


also Outlook for mobile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook_(mobile_app)

Security Outlook Mobile temporarily stores and indexes user data (including email, attachments, calendar information, and contacts), along with login credentials,[28] in a "secure" form on Microsoft Azure servers located in the United States.[29] On Exchange accounts, these servers identify as a single Exchange ActiveSync user in order to fetch e-mail. Additionally, the app does not support mobile device management, nor allows administrators to control how third-party cloud storage services are used with the app to interact with their users. Concerns surrounding these security issues have prompted some firms, including the European Parliament, to block the app on their Exchange servers.[30][31][32] Microsoft maintains a separate, pre-existing Outlook Web Access app for Android and iOS.[32]




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