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.
Because the system incentivizes it. Not being a cunt is not in their interests, but making as much money as realistically possible is. If they get punished for it, what will it be? A couple million? Thats just a few days of operational profits, or in other words “cost of doing business”.