EU Data Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Microsoft Contracts (reuters.com) 13
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft's contracts with European Union institutions do not fully protect data in line with EU law, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said in initial findings published on Monday. The EDPS, the EU's data watchdog, opened an investigation in April to assess whether contracts between Microsoft and EU institutions such as the European Commission fully complied with the bloc's data protection rules. "Though the investigation is still ongoing, preliminary results reveal serious concerns over compliance of the relevant contractual terms with data protection rules and the role of Microsoft as a processor for EU institutions using its products and services," the EDPS says in a statement. "We are committed to helping our customers comply with GDPR, Regulation 2018/1725 and other applicable laws," a Microsoft spokesman said. "We are in discussions with our customers in the EU institutions and will soon announce contractual changes that will address concerns such as those raised by the EDPS."
Obviously, the EU should enforce GPDR (Score:5, Interesting)
By the way, did you know your EU citizens who have friends in the US are being facially identified by FB too?
You might want to get on that.
Re:More EU rules (Score:5, Insightful)
Innovative and Microsoft in the same sentence. And implying that one has something to do with the other.
Well, MS has innovated some marketing techniques, and I believe it once made a decent keyboard and once made a decent mouse. (I'm not sure about the mouse.) Everything else they've either copied from someone else or used legal tricks and a powerful set of lawyers to "acquire". Can't say it was stolen once the lawyers are through with it.
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After the gov support had to stop?
Consumers support that local EU product over the great quality of software and OS from the USA AC?
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I believe it once made a decent keyboard and once made a decent mouse. (I'm not sure about the mouse.)
Actually, I'm pretty sure about the mouse (I got to use some back in the 80ies, though I never owned one - they only lacked a middle key, were robust and ergonomic), much less though about the keyboard (IBM rulez!).
You may have forgotten about that BASIC interpreter (IIRC the BASIC on the Dragon 32, with which I had my first encounter with a home computer, was from MS), and about the MS Flight Simulator (I had version 2 for the Atari ST, later a DOS version for the PC).
Otherwise, yeah, a hell of a lot of un
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Yes, but did Microsoft create them or purchase the creation?
So I'm not sure that Microsoft innovated here.
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It's fun to hate Microsoft but actually Azure cloud is quite innovative and a really powerful tool. It's popular because it's good and well integrated into Microsoft's IDE, which is also really good.
Annoying as it is Microsoft's focus on developers actually paid off and they have a really good ecosystem now.
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Well, I've got to admit I know nothing about the Azure cloud. So possibly three items.
OTOH, they may well have innovated other things that I never used, so to say that they never innovated would be dogmatic. But to consider them reasonably associated with innovation is to ignore history.
Loose the Microserfs (Score:3)
Disappointing really.
Itâ(TM)s simple. The EU has rules. Microsoft can either play by them or pay for breaking them... fines, being shut out of new sales etc until they abide by them.