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

[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.