Austria’s data protection authority has ruled that Microsoft unlawfully used tracking cookies on a student’s device through its education software, marking a further regulatory setback for the company’s use of personal data in schools.
Austrian watchdog orders Microsoft to stop tracking schoolchildren in Microsoft 365 Education
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Auster@thebrainbin.org 21 hours ago
A ruling without consequences, or with negligible ones, has no value, so if MS insists on doing it, what the Austrian authority will do remains to be seen.
Also, how would Microsoft know which of their users to not track? At some point they ask the age? Genuine questions, since I never used MS 365.
And if they don't take the age, it further makes me think, how would they? It would sound to me like those censorious laws multiple countries in quick sucession are trying to pass, and coincidentally with similar excuses, "protecting the children".