noyb has filed two complaints against Microsoft for unlawful data processing in 365 Education

In the wake of the pandemic, schools in the European Union have increasingly begun to implement digital services for online learning. While these modernisation efforts are a welcome development, a small number of big tech companies immediately tried to dominate the space – often with the intention of getting children used to their systems and creating a new generation of future “loyal” customers. One of them is Microsoft, whose 365 Education services violate children’s data protection rights. When pupils wanted to exercise their GDPR rights, Microsoft said schools were the “controller” for their data. However, the schools have no control over the systems.

  • brisk@aussie.zone
    14·
    6 months ago

    This article seems to have a bizarre assumption all the way through that the schools must use Microsoft 365.

    Obviously Microsoft is failing morally and probably legally (what else is new), but the schools also have a moral and legal requirement to choose software which protects the rights of the children. Microsoft is sort of right in the way they surely didn’t mean; schools have the responsibility to not use Microsoft 365.

    • B0rax@feddit.de
      8·
      6 months ago

      Microsoft 365 is the easy solution. Schools usually don’t have the people and/or the Know-how to implement alternative, well working, solutions.