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...
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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, universities must balance the demand for modern productivity tools with rigorous privacy and compliance obligations. Nowhere is this more apparent than in educational institutions’ deployment and management of Microsoft 365—a platform that has...
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and educators have had to navigate a wide range of learning scenarios, from remote, to hybrid, and in some parts of the world, a return to face-to-face learning. In many of these cases, schools and districts had to adopt new technologies to maintain...
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