Congress bans staff use of Microsoft’s AI Copilot

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https://www.axios.com/2024/03/29/congress-house-strict-ban-microsoft-copilot-staffers

The U.S. House has set a strict ban on congressional staffers’ use of Microsoft Copilot, the company’s AI-based chatbot, Axios has learned…

The House last June restricted staffers’ use of ChatGPT, allowing limited use of the paid subscription version while banning the free version…

The House’s Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, in guidance to congressional offices obtained by Axios, said Microsoft Copilot is “unauthorized for House use.”

“The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” it said.

The guidance added that Copilot “will be removed from and blocked on all House Windows devices.“…

* First move in the right direction ?
* Should Microsoft ask for users consent to install Copilot ?

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Alex5723 wrote:

Should Microsoft ask for users consent to install Copilot ?

Not just Copilot, but everything that is non-essential to using the system e.g. Spotlight, newsfeeds etc

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Alex5723 wrote:

* First move in the right direction ?
* Should Microsoft ask for users consent to install Copilot ?

Finally some sence, and awakening?

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samak wrote:

Alex5723 wrote: Should Microsoft ask for users consent to install Copilot ?

samak wrote:

Not just Copilot, but everything that is non-essential to using the system e.g. Spotlight, newsfeeds etc

The hard truth is…they own the OS and can do what they want with it.

You simply have a license to use it.

 

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The MILLION dollar question is:
IF any Govt is wary of AI, what do THEY know that the general public don’t?
Who do you trust today?

Given that Microsoft HAS to comply with the EU DMA and the EU AI Act with ChatGPT, their AI european catchment looks bleak, unless they adhere to the aforementioned policies 🙂

With AI, I smell a data surveillance capitalism framework rat in Copilot
and that’s not to say MS are the only one’s at it..

BEWARE those bearing free gifts, especially by default.
REMEMBER: Commercially ‘Free’ software also revokes some privacy by using it.
MY ADVICE: Read the small print before commiting to ‘keeping up with the Jones’s’

If debian is good enough for NASA...

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Microfix wrote:

Given that Microsoft HAS to comply with the EU DMA

Only in EU. The rest of the world gets ““The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,”

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