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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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First thing any student should do when getting a school laptop is wipe it and reinstall the os

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Never stopped me before. Doubtful it will stop kids today.