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Most enterprises assume that if a vendor calls itself “enterprise‑ready” and posts a privacy policy, the hard work of CCPA and GDPR compliance is already done — the new TrustThis.org benchmark shows that assumption is dangerously wrong for the majority of mainstream platforms. Background...

Microsoft has been ordered by Austria’s data protection authority to stop deploying tracking cookies on a pupil’s devices after a regulator found the cookies were installed without valid consent and were being used for purposes that go beyond purely educational needs. The ruling — the latest in...

Microsoft está siendo investigada en la Unión Europea tras una denuncia que acusa a la compañía de procesar ilegalmente datos personales de palestinos y ciudadanos europeos para fines de vigilancia militar israelí, una acusación que pone en el centro al servicio en la nube Microsoft Azure, al...

Microsoft's cloud is at the center of the latest legal escalation over how hyperscale platforms handle government intelligence workloads after the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), working with the international rights group Eko, filed a formal complaint with Ireland’s Data Protection...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud now sits at the center of a major data‑privacy and human‑rights controversy after the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) lodged a formal GDPR complaint alleging Microsoft Ireland unlawfully processed and enabled the transfer of Palestinian personal data used by the...

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has lodged a formal complaint with Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) alleging that Microsoft Ireland unlawfully processed data on behalf of the Israeli Defence Forces in a manner that enabled mass surveillance, the transfer of large volumes...

Microsoft is facing a formal complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission alleging the company aided the Israeli military in removing or obscuring evidence of mass surveillance of Palestinians stored in European cloud data centres — a development that sharpens legal, technical and...

The Austrian data protection authority has found that Microsoft’s widely used Microsoft 365 Education platform illegally tracked students, failed to provide full access to their personal data, and attempted to shift GDPR responsibilities onto schools and education authorities — a ruling that...

SURF’s updated Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) has moved two of four previously flagged high privacy risks for Microsoft 365 Copilot in education down to medium, but important hazards — notably AI inaccuracy (hallucinations) and an 18‑month retention window for pseudonymized telemetry —...

Dutch education and research network SURF’s Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Microsoft 365 Copilot finds persistent privacy and safety gaps that make the service unsuitable for broad use in schools and research institutions — and even after ongoing talks with Microsoft, two of the...

Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...

Norway’s legal profession is at a decisive inflection point: by combining strict, fjord‑tested data protection rules with a newly modernised Lawyer Act, Norwegian firms can safely harvest huge productivity gains from generative AI — but only if they pick tools and deployment patterns that...

There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never...

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG Göttingen) has moved from proof‑of‑concept to production by expanding its deployment of Sectra’s enterprise imaging technology to include the Sectra Amplifier Service, a managed AI‑as‑a‑service hosted in Microsoft Azure that integrates validated third‑party AI...

Hotels face a crossroads: artificial intelligence promises smarter personalization and leaner operations, but when guest names, preferences or booking histories are casually copy-pasted into public chatbots the consequences can be legal, financial and reputational — as Amsterdam-based middleware...

Windows 11’s AI-first push has turned into a study in contradictions: promising productivity shortcuts and local intelligence on one hand, and on the other hand delivering a fragmented, confusing, and sometimes privacy-ambiguous user experience that many feel undermines the core job of an...

Microsoft's candid admission that it “cannot guarantee” European customer data will never be handed to U.S. authorities has turned a long‑standing corporate argument about cloud sovereignty into a live-policy moment — and prompted sharp public ripostes from regional players such as OVHcloud’s...

Zscaler’s claim that its cloud sees “over half a trillion transactions a day” has suddenly become more than a brag about scale — it’s the center of a fresh privacy controversy after external reports and researcher commentary interpreted CEO remarks to mean Zscaler is using customer logs and full...

Last week’s headlines brought a stark reminder that identity is the new battlefield: a major US credit union disclosed a breach that exposed entire customer identity kits, researchers revealed Android malware weaponizing NFC to enable real-time payment fraud, UK regulators tightened the rules on...

Microsoft has opened a formal, externally supervised review into allegations that its Azure cloud was used to store and process vast quantities of intercepted Palestinian communications — a probe that elevates a months‑long ethics and policy crisis inside the company into an urgent legal...