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The clause establishes the scope of input data collection across multiple modalities—voice, text, handwriting, and typing—that the service captures during normal operation. This defines what categories of user-generated input data Microsoft processes as part of service delivery.
The updated policy establishes additional grounds on which Microsoft may retain personal data. While the prior version tied retention to specific user expectations and available deletion controls, the revised language authorizes retention for 'operating our business, meeting our contractual and legal obligations, improving and developing our products and services, protecting the safety and security of our systems and customers, and resolving disputes.' This expands the stated purposes beyond transaction fulfillment and legal compliance. The updated policy directs users to product-specific documentation for retention details rather than providing explicit deletion procedures and timelines in the privacy statement itself.
View change record →The updated policy now grounds data retention in five broad business purposes: operating the business, meeting contractual and legal obligations, improving and developing products and services, protecting system and customer safety, and resolving disputes. Previously, the policy articulated specific criteria for determining retention periods, including customer expectations for retention until manual deletion, availability of automated deletion controls, and data sensitivity. The revised language removes these granular criteria and instead requires users to consult individual product documentation to understand when their specific data will be deleted. This shifts the burden of finding retention timelines from the main policy statement to separate product-specific documents.
View change record →The updated Privacy Statement removes previously stated language about additional rights available to European Economic Area users, narrowing the policy's explicit protections in that region. Simultaneously, the revised terms now explicitly authorize Microsoft to contact users via auto-dialer and prerecorded voice for marketing purposes, provided the user has consented to receive marketing communications to the phone number supplied. This establishes Microsoft's contractual permission to initiate automated marketing calls using artificial intelligence-generated voice technology where user consent to marketing contact has been given.
View change record →Users' voice commands, dictation, typed text, and stylus/pen placement data are collected and processed by Microsoft as part of the service. The provision specifies the types of input data the service collects but does not describe retention periods, use limitations, or sharing practices for these data categories.
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"Voice data. Your voice data, sometimes referred to as "voice clips", such as search queries, commands, or dictation you speak, which may include background sounds. Text, inking, and typing data. Text, inking, and typing data and related information. For example, when we collect inking data, we collect information about the placement of your inking instrument on your device.— Excerpt from Microsoft's Microsoft Privacy Statement (Legacy)
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The clause establishes the scope of input data collection across multiple modalities—voice, text, handwriting, and typing—that the service captures during normal operation. This defines what categories of user-generated input data Microsoft processes as part of service delivery.
Users' voice commands, dictation, typed text, and stylus/pen placement data are collected and processed by Microsoft as part of the service. The provision specifies the types of input data the service collects but does not describe retention periods, use limitations, or sharing practices for these data categories.
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