I want to sue Microsoft -- OneDrive has hijacked all my local files and there's no way to retreive it!!!!

Anonymous
2023-09-20T23:52:12+00:00

Microsoft is using deceptive tactics to hold our content hostage. I wasn't given any intimation on how OneDrive would without my permission take hold of my folders and content and not release it back to me unless I took their subscription account to access them. Even though I have paid for a yearly subscription, I still am not able to restore back all my content to my local storage. Though the sum of amount they've received isn't much, the value of my content is too high for me. I do not want them on OneDrive, I want them locally on my computer and for me to access, store, or transfer per my discretion.

When they apply this policy at a systemic level where all Windows users are subjected to it, suddenly the under $20 annual fee obviously becomes a much greater sum. It is something that must be attacked and resented publicly. A class action law suit is necessary when companies begin to act so callously.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T16:33:00+00:00

    How can we get this started? If you have any ideas, how to procures a team of lawyers on this....let me know...lets get this movement started

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-26T01:58:25+00:00

    Point by Point

    1. Microsoft has always and still does have a gaping back door. 87% of all identity thefts are Microsoft hacked. The credit union hacks had Microsoft everything. Servers, hardware and software. I know, I was one of the millions who got hit.
    2. By law there are a host of things they can't do. They are being sued at this very moment by the FTC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_v._Microsoft 
    3. Arbitration unsigned contracts hold up for about five minutes in federal court which is the only court to sue them in.
    4. Lucky you have a company with the money to buy that level of protection, I don't. The best I researched is ESET and Microsoft oozed right through them.
    5. Because I say what I think openly, Microsoft's latest assault was to lock me out of my computer. I could log on online using the same email address I used for my computer. For the last hundred years. According to them, they had no record of that email. I had a friend write their legal department on his law office letterhead. OMG, they located that email.
    6. When Microsoft and Apple wer at the height of their Mexican Standoff, my son's two friends came up with an OS that could breach the two. Apple could read and convert Word documents, Microsoft could do the same with Corel. The two guys talked about it on chat rooms. Remember them? Out of the clear blue sky they were contacted by an angel investor. They were so young, they signed not aware they sold all rights away. Savant was never heard from again. That was Bill Gates, CEO. Not a nice guy.
    7. I think the multiple department lawsuits vs Microsoft might have an affect. A soft might. https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact  Microsoft has yet proceed and do what they were told to do.

    Microsoft like most monster corporations has the same code as health insurance, Delay, Deny, Defend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend I'm fighting the Kaiser version of that right now. Thankfully Kaiser has been successfully sued over and over for what they are doing to me and lost, but who has money for a lawyer and an ALJ hearing costs me $180. Thankfully I have things I've made that people want to buy.

    Kaiser, Microsoft, the truth is they don't care. I operate from a place I call Benevolent Anarchy. Anarchy is the European sense of the word. Act with the best of intentions, when anything or person is in a 5 foot radius is to be treated kindly and with respect, but do what has to be done if you feel you've been wronged Truly wronged. Then let your rabid dog out to play and protect yourself. I'm not against guns per se. I never have owned one nor do I want one. I will use every type of social media and the law. I will be relentless, have no mercy, I will not be kind, I will be law abiding. That is why I believe Microsoft should be sued.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-23T02:40:24+00:00

    Has this class action lawsuit happened yet? It definitely should. I honestly believe what they are doing is deceptive and possibly criminal.

    They literally take your personal data without permission and store it in servers where it may or may not be secure.

    It is a complete invasion of privacy! Others may get access to your personal information without you knowing it.

    And then they have the gall to hold your data ransom and say you must pay a fee to access it! How is this not criminal behavior? It's no different than a burglar steeling your computer and demanding you pay to get it back.

    And it's even worse if you have an Outlook/Hotmail email address, because they will shut off your email unless you pay their ransom!

    Please, please, please someone file this lawsuit against them. They've been getting away with this behavior for far too long.

    I don't want to hear any more lame excuses of "well, why don't you just disable it?"

    Why must we beg the thief to not rob us!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-11T03:13:01+00:00

    I agree 100%! My files have been taken not only from my PC but two of my email accounts without my permission, knowledge!

    Microsoft cannot force people into arbitration just because they used windows, zero contracts can forbid you from suing.

    Let me know if you find an attorney and start a lawsuit I'm in! August 2024 the greenone posted on this form looking for a lawyer as well. This software is far too intrusive and illegally grabs data. Once it's in one drive without my authorization I am unable to remove the data from one drive. Highly illegal!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-22T23:42:46+00:00

    I wish we all get together and bring a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft OneDrive. I am constantly getting pornographic emails under memories of the day and I have lost a great deal of my important files that are highjacked and not stored in my C-drive.

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