The new Microsoft Outlook, replacing Calendar and Mail in Windows 11, syncs user data, including credentials or emails, to Microsoft Cloud by default. This applies even when using Gmail and other third-party mail accounts unless specified otherwise.
Microsoft gets full access to mails, calendars and contacts!
"Microsoft steals access data"
But not only Windows users are at risk: Outlook versions for iOS, Mac and even Android are also affected, according to Heise.
New Outlook users risk having their IMAP and SMTP credentials and whole emails transferred to Microsoft servers without proper consent given, a report by heise.de found.
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Summary
Affected users: Android, iOS, and Mac
When: Now if you upgrade your Outlook
Source:
https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft
https://archive.md/ehz47
https://cybernews.com/privacy/new-outlook-copies-user-emails-to-microsoft-cloud/
https://archive.md/kZJvc
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html
https://archive.li/ncV7X
Alternatives
Free email client for private or business use:
https://www.thunderbird.net
Hundreds of free add-ons at https://addons.thunderbird.net
Thunderbird is one of the most popular email software
Thunderbird is Libre Source (Open Source). This means stronger privacy and security.
Easier to use webmail and email hosting. Powered by the Libre Source Open-Xchange software:
Personal: https://mailbox.org/en/private-customers
Business: https://mailbox.org/en/business-customers
Mix both. You could host your email at https://mailbox.org and use Thunderbird to read and send your email
For advanced users, using Thunderbird, you are able, for FREE, to migrate your email storage from Microsoft to Mailbox.org or any other hosting to your liking. https://kb.mailbox.org/en/business/account-article/do-it-yourself-migration
Alternatively, https://mailbox.org offers a paid migration services at https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/account-article/audriga-your-e-mail-migration-service
Disclaimer
• This blog is about expressing my opinions, feelings, and thoughts. Nothing else. In other words, but not limited to, my blog is NOT a recommendation, NOT an advice, NOT a call for violence to self or others, NOT an endorsement. If you need recommendation of any kind, such as but not limited to, medical or legal recommendation, I suggest considering asking an appropriate professional to your liking. I suggest choosing one without conflict of interest.
• I am NOT affiliated with the author(s), or product(s), or service(s) in this blog
• I do NOT have a conflict of interest with the author(s), or product(s), or service(s) in this blog. I am not a sales representative of those.
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Then the feds buy it from Microsoft and say they don't need a warrant.
My emails are stored on my local computer, not "out there somewhere."