: Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR

An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country’s data protection regulator ruled the software giant “illegally” tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.

noyb said the ruling [PDF] by the Austrian Data Protection Authority also confirmed that Microsoft had tried to shift responsibility for access requests to local schools, and the software and cloud giant would have to explain how it used user data.

  • Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    when did behaving like a cunt become normal? companies used to have at least a shred of integrity, if only to not get into trouble legally. nowadays they are indistinguishable from the mob, i’d trust the word of organised crime more at this point

    • dinckelman@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Because the system incentivizes it. Not being a cunt is not in their interests, but making as much money as realistically possible is. If they get punished for it, what will it be? A couple million? Thats just a few days of operational profits, or in other words “cost of doing business”.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      I accidentally keyed my passport details into a phishing website recently. I ran some diagnostics on the site, and it turns out that even the criminals didn’t steal my data. I think they just wanted to trick me into paying for something that’s usually free.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 days ago

      Are these not locked-down corporate-type machines? Same with school chromebooks, they likely make it very hard to escape the control.