Tag Archives: Privacy

GDPR: WhatsApp fined with 225 million Euro

Posted on 2021-09-02 by guenni

[German]The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has served the Irish-based offshoot of Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp, which is headquartered for Europe, with a fine of 225 million euros for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation. This is the second-highest GDPR … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365: Changes in the privacy setting as of 2021/09/01

Posted on 2021-09-01 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has just announced changes to the privacy settings defaults for Microsoft 365. User data for Microsoft 365 analytics is now pseudonymized by default in Microsoft 365. This change is intended to help companies comply with their local privacy laws. … Continue reading →

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Bye, bye AudaCity after new privacy agreement

Posted on 2021-07-06 by guenni

[German]The Audacity saga continues – as of July 2, 2021, there was another change to the audio application's privacy agreement. There, the new owner's management is keeping some back doors open to be able to collect telemetry data from the … Continue reading →

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Is Firefox 89/90 pulling again data from systems?

Posted on 2021-06-22 by guenni

[German]After Firefox has been updated several times over the past few weeks, there are indications that developers are starting to pull data from user systems again. Here is some information about this issue. Advertising

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3 years of GDPR: Further ambiguity in companies

Posted on 2021-06-01 by guenni

[German]Three years ago, on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. This meant enormous changes for many companies with regard to the storage and processing of data – although the GDPR had not introduced anything … Continue reading →

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

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Audacity and its telemetry: New management's middle finger to the community

Posted on 2021-05-08 by guenni

[German]Open source enthusiasts are currently on the barricades, because Audacity has a new management. And this has simply given the audio player a set of functions for telemetry data collection. This does not go down well with the community, which … Continue reading →

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Microsoft: Data of European companies/authorities remain in Europe

Posted on 2021-05-07 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is responding to the fact that there is no legal basis for data exchange between European customers and the US. Therefore, Microsoft plans to adapt its products so that in the future, at some point, the data of European … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 ‘Workplace Analytics’ Productivity Score: Microsoft's privacy committment

Posted on 2020-12-02 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's software developers have enhanced their Microsoft 365 with a 'Workplace Analytics' feature that allows administrators to monitor and evaluate the performance of their users. Over the last week, there's been a lot of conversation about Microsoft Productivity Score from … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 'Workplace Analytics' – Productivity Score nightmare

Posted on 2020-11-27 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's software developers have enhanced their Microsoft 365 with a 'Workplace Analytics' feature that allows administrators to monitor and evaluate the performance of their users. This is a topic that is currently calling the attention of data protectionists and works … Continue reading →

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Microsoft's new steps for Data Protection?

Posted on 2020-11-21 by guenni

[German]In a news post Microsoft introduces new commitments, intended to defend customers' data. It's because of European GDPR rules don't allow a transfer of user data to countries not bound by the GDPR rules. Or in other words: It's Microsoft … Continue reading →

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