As of 12/1/20, Ithaca College students, faculty, and staff began receiving an email from Cortana, cortana@microsoft.com, with the subject Your Daily Briefing. This message is not phishing and was enabled by Microsoft on December 1, 2020. Information Technology was not aware of this in advance, but encourage individuals to learn more about this feature and leave this enabled or opt-out as desired.
Individuals that choose to leave this feature enabled, will receive personal and private summaries of emails, meetings, and documents you have access to with reminders about items related to your Outlook email and calendar. Microsoft uses AI technology to automatically provide these reminders and summaries based upon the items in your IC Office 365 account. For details about how Microsoft uses this data, you can see Microsoft’s Privacy Statement for more information.
Individuals that choose to opt-out may unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link within the email you received.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Information Technology Service Desk for assistance.
Information Technology Service Desk
Ithaca.edu/itchat
servicedesk@ithaca.edu
607-274-1000
104 Job Hall
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