Your comment reminded me of the new grammar checking feature on my phone. It better not be what I think it is.

EDIT 1: I just checked and, fucking hell, it's grammarly! Samsung sneaked in an update that was silently leaking everything I wrote to fucking grammarly. This can be disabled by pressing the gear button and accessing the hidden writing assistant menu.

Good hardware is not worth risking my private information. Samsung, this will be the last time I buy a phone from you.

EDIT 2: Couldn't find anything about this on Samsung's website. Found more information on grammarly: https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/440798862017...

Chrome does the same thing for textboxes if you use enhanced spell checking.

>Enhanced spell check Uses the same spell checker that’s used in Google search. Text you type in the browser is sent to Google.

Why would governments be opposed to free mass surveillance. Microsoft is one of the biggest cronies in Washington.

> At what point are some of the major government legal departments actually going to step up

Why would they? It's cheap intelligence on their opponents. Bypasses those pesky constitution laws. Win-win.

Well, here is what Microsoft says on the privacy for this service:

> By default, Microsoft Edge provides spelling and grammar checking using Microsoft Editor. When using Microsoft Editor, Microsoft Edge sends your typed text and a service token to a Microsoft cloud service over a secure HTTPS connection. The service token doesn't contain any user-identifiable information. A Microsoft cloud service then processes the text to detect spelling and grammar errors in your text. All your typed text that's sent to Microsoft is deleted immediately after processing occurs. No data is stored for any period of time.

So, they don't keep any data using this.

But it's unclear since they also do text prediction; which can be toggled separately in Edge.

> If the Use text prediction toggle is turned on, Microsoft Edge sends the text in the text box, your top language from the browser setting, and a text box identifier to a Microsoft cloud service over a secure HTTPS connection. The text box identifier is not associated with your account. The Microsoft cloud service processes the text to generate a relevant text prediction. Typed characters and text predictions are cached for up to 30 days, for service quality and performance improvement purposes only.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whi...

> At what point are some of the major government legal departments actually going to step up and sort this shit out?

At the point when their love relationship with US will end up in divorce. So not in the near future.

It helps to read TOS/EULA/etc. If you agree to something then you shouldn't be complaining about it.

Most people want free grammar-checking, what are you suggesting exactly?