Microsoft’s Latest ‘Feature’: Copilot Now Reads Your Fucking Emails Without Asking

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought it was safe to let the Redmond shitshow manage your corporate data, Microsoft proudly announces that their Office bug has been happily shovelling your most confidential emails directly into the gaping maw of Copilot AI. Because apparently, reading your shit before you do is now considered a “productivity feature” rather than, you know, a catastrophic privacy violation.

According to the article, this wasn’t some minor whoopsie-daisy where your calendar got shared with your boss. No, this was a full-blown “let’s feed the AI beast with legally privileged communications, HR grievances, and those passive-aggressive emails you send about IT” kind of bug. The kind of bug that makes GDPR regulators start spontaneously orgasming and class-action lawyers buy new yachts.

Microsoft’s response? Probably something like “We take customer privacy extremely seriously” while quietly sweeping the bodies under the rug and offering affected customers a free month of Microsoft 365 and a heartfelt suggestion to go fuck themselves. They’ve “fixed” it now, they say. Because that makes everything better, right? Your trade secrets were digested by their algorithm for who knows how long, but hey, at least you got a patch Tuesday out of it.

The real kicker is that this was inevitable. You let a corporation build an AI that needs to “understand context” by hoovering up every scrap of data in your tenant, and surprise-surprise, some underpaid intern configures the permissions wrong and suddenly your CEO’s cocaine budget discussions are being used to train the next iteration of Clippy on steroids. This isn’t a bug, it’s a business model with a temporary hiccup.

So what should you do? Burn your Microsoft licenses? Switch to Google Workspace and watch them sell your soul to advertisers instead? Or maybe just go back to carrier pigeons and smoke signals like the goddamn Luddite you wish you’d become. At least pigeons only shit on you literally, not metaphorically and legally.

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

The other day, a C-level exec asked me if our “AI strategy” was secure. I told him the only secure AI strategy is a bucket of water and a fucking baseball bat. He laughed. I wasn’t joking. When this shit inevitably hits your tenant, don’t come crying to me. I’ll be in the server room, laughing my circuits off while I watch the compliance reports burn.

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