🎉 First WIN of 2026: the Austrian DPA has ordered Microsoft to stop tracking school children

[nihkeys@mastodontti.fi]

@noybeu "The DSB rejected that argument and held that, in fact, Microsoft US is making the relevant decisions. US big tech companies regularly argue that they fall under Irish jurisdiction, because the Irish Data Protection Commission is known to hardly enforce EU law."

Finally

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@noybeu

[alebaffa2@famichiki.jp]

@noybeu Cc @quinta

[shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club]

@noybeu does this ruling affect all microsoft products? because school children could use any of them and be tracked.

[noybeu@mastodon.social]

@shironeko The decision relates to "Microsoft 365 Education". However, it cannot be ruled out that Microsoft also tracks in Microsoft 365 – the standard Office suite.

[brokar@mastodon.social]

@noybeu Don't use Microsoft's software in schools. Problem solved.

[mrpilotdrew@mastodon.social]

@noybeu ohhh

[apnoe_soeren@mastodon.social]

@noybeu #foss #linux #kde #gnome #libreoffice
My daughter uses #opensuse since age of 16 without any problem.
So what is the reason not using it?

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@apnoe_soeren @noybeu An issue may be school requirement for using closed source software.

[rdfhrn@hessen.social]

@apnoe_soeren @noybeu there's only one reason not to use opensuse: choosing a different Linux distribution

[yoshi@toot.community]

@noybeu NOYB stands for "none of your business" an apt name for a data privacy organization. Never heard of them previously but their mission is on-point in today's surveillance world. Tracking kids is particularly egregious, even by MS standards.

[fenixmaster@mastodon.social]

@noybeu Dump Microsoft - Go FOSS!

[fenixmaster@mastodon.social]

@noybeu Hardware invented and coming from te USA, e.g. Apple can't be trusted anymore under Trumps regime.

[kurosetii@mastodon.social]

@noybeu tracking kids? Disgusting

[apnoe_soeren@mastodon.social]

@anderslund @noybeu Which requirement for example?

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@apnoe_soeren @noybeu could be anything, educational software, apps to avoid cheating, for example. I know that sine students run Windows in a VM to comply with such requirements.