Microsoft’s new data collection service
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Outlook.
https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service
And if that's not bad enough.
When you sync third-party email accounts from services like Yahoo or Gmail(new window) with the new Outlook, you risk granting Microsoft access(new window) to the IMAP(new window) and SMTP(new window) credentials, emails, contacts, and events associated with those accounts, according to the German IT blog Heise Online(new window).
“Although Microsoft explains that it is possible to switch back to the previous apps at any time, the data will already be stored by the company,” Heise reported. “This allows Microsoft to read the emails.”
You can’t use the new Outlook without syncing all this information with Microsoft Cloud — there is only the option to cancel, according to the developers’ forum XDA(new window). It is also configured to send login details – including usernames and passwords – directly to Microsoft servers.
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I stopped using Outlook years ago, as it kept refusing to see my Verizon account mails after they got taken over by everybody's favourite provider, AOL.
Hopefully, somebody gets assigned the job of reading my work email, so I won't have to.
