Privacy group seeks clarification of whether EU data protection law has been breached
A privacy campaign group with a strong record in legal upheavals has asked the Austrian data protection authority to investigate Microsoft 365 Education to clarify if it breaches transparency provisions under GDPR.
Noyb said Microsoft pushed data protection obligations onto schools that use the system, and failed to comply with subjects' right to access data about them. Neither Microsoft's privacy documentation, requests for access, nor noyb's research could fully clarify what data about children is being processed by Microsoft 365 Education.
In its new complaint, noyb said Microsoft was trying to avoid responsibility under GDPR by insisting that almost all of the data protection responsibilities lie with local authorities or schools. Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb, said:"Our analysis of the data flows is very worrying. Microsoft 365 Education appears to track users regardless of their age. This practice is likely to affect hundreds of thousands of pupils and students in the EU and EEA.
Noyb has asked the DSB to determine the personal data about children that Microsoft 365 Education is processing. If the authority finds a breach of GDPR, the authority should impose a fine, the complainant said. ®With demand for AI real-time data analytics booming, having so much computing power centred around the CPU may not be the best strategyMicrosoft to spend $3.
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