Tag Archives: Data protection

EU data protection authority says: EU Commission violates GDPR with Microsoft 365

Posted on 2024-03-12 by guenni

[German]Monday, March 11, 2024, the European Data Protection Supervisors (EDPS) publicly stated in a report that the European Commission has violated its own (data protection) regulations when using Microsoft 365. The EDPB panel has instructed the EU Commission to stop … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online show foreign address lists (GAL) – a GDPR violation

Posted on 2023-10-25 by guenni

[German]A reader pointed out to me a strange and dubious behavior of Exchange Online. It has been observed that users are offered global address lists (GAL) from other tenants as soon as people try to fill out the To field … Continue reading →

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European Union: Which lobby organizations are behind the plans for chat control?

Posted on 2023-09-27 by guenni

[German]The European Union (EU) is planning to surveillance of chats of EU citizens without any reason. There is widespread opposition from civil liberties movements and warning from experts. Though deliberations on chat control were recently removed from the agenda of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft receives the German Big Brother Award 2023 for its "life's work"

Posted on 2023-04-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft received the German Big Brother Award 2023 for its "life's work" yesterday, April 28, 2023, because it uses its market power to force people, companies and public authorities to constantly transmit data during their digital activities, thereby making themselves … Continue reading →

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ESDA Comments on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

Posted on 2023-03-14 by guenni

[German]The European Commission is in the process of preparing a new agreement on data exchange with the USA, called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. For this purpose, the EU Commission announced a preliminary adequacy decision as of December 13, 2022. … Continue reading →

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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German data protection conference 2022 says Microsoft 365 still not GDPR compliant

Posted on 2022-11-27 by guenni

[German]The use of Microsoft 365 (including Office 365) is still not compliant with European general data protection rules (GDPR). Anyone using the product is breaching European GDPR law – at least as far as the standard configuration specified by Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Data protection commissioner of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) considers US President Biden's Executive Order for a data protection agreement "Privacy Shield 2.0" with European Union as insufficient

Posted on 2022-10-28 by guenni

[German]On October 7, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden launched the new data protection agreement with the European Union, referred to here as "Privacy Shield 2.0", by means of an Executive Order. The aim: to clear the legal way for data … Continue reading →

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Data protection: Microsoft 365 banned in Germany's Baden-Württemberg's schools by summer 2022

Posted on 2022-04-26 by guenni

[German]The use of Microsoft 365 at schools in German state of Baden-Württemberg has been banned after the summer 2022. Schools must offer suitable alternatives for students and teachers. This is pointed out by the State Commissioner for Data Protection and … Continue reading →

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Irish data protection authorities fined Meta 17 million euros

Posted on 2022-03-16 by guenni

[German]The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) has just fined Meta (formerly Facebook) €17 million. This fine stems from several data protection breaches by Facebook in the past. Advertising

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Europol must delete data collected illegal from individuals

Posted on 2022-01-11 by guenni

[German]The EU police agency Europol has amassed a huge collection of personal data of individuals collected somewhere in the course of investigations, crime reports or hacked messenger services, as well as asylum seekers. This data collection has been done unlawfully, … Continue reading →

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