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Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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.

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[–] xtools@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

no they really didn't, there's never been a time when corporations acted normal