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.
I accidentally keyed my passport details into a phishing website recently. I ran some diagnostics on the site, and it turns out that even the criminals didn’t steal my data. I think they just wanted to trick me into paying for something that’s usually free.