A lengthy investigation into the European Union's use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc's data protection rules through its use A lengthy investigation into the European Union's use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc's data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software.
If only there was a FOSS OS they could use … O wait.
(And with the money the EU has (and would save from not paying MS) they could make it function whatever way they wanted. Build their own cloud infrastructure. Fully encrypted. But no. That would be cool and we can not have that!)
Convince and expertise it might make financial and customizable sense but they’d have to employ ppl for that and build a team and so on it is easier to buy a subscription for stuff that already exists.
I fully agree with you all public sector software should be open source
A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software.
The EDPS has imposed corrective measures requiring the Commission to address the compliance problems it has identified by December 9 2024, assuming it continues to use Microsoft’s cloud suite.
The regulator, which oversees’ EU institutions’ compliance with data protection rules, opened a probe of the Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 and other US cloud services back in May 2021.
When the EDPS opened the investigation there was also no data transfer agreement in place between the bloc and the US, following the striking down of the EU-US Privacy Shield in July 2020.
In a series of statements during a press briefing, it expressed confidence that it complies with “the applicable data protection rules, both in fact and in law”.
The same applies to all other software acquired by the Commission,” it went on, further noting: “New data protection rules for the EU institutions and bodies came into force on 11 December 2018.
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Lol.
If only there was a FOSS OS they could use … O wait.
(And with the money the EU has (and would save from not paying MS) they could make it function whatever way they wanted. Build their own cloud infrastructure. Fully encrypted. But no. That would be cool and we can not have that!)
Convince and expertise it might make financial and customizable sense but they’d have to employ ppl for that and build a team and so on it is easier to buy a subscription for stuff that already exists. I fully agree with you all public sector software should be open source
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software.
The EDPS has imposed corrective measures requiring the Commission to address the compliance problems it has identified by December 9 2024, assuming it continues to use Microsoft’s cloud suite.
The regulator, which oversees’ EU institutions’ compliance with data protection rules, opened a probe of the Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 and other US cloud services back in May 2021.
When the EDPS opened the investigation there was also no data transfer agreement in place between the bloc and the US, following the striking down of the EU-US Privacy Shield in July 2020.
In a series of statements during a press briefing, it expressed confidence that it complies with “the applicable data protection rules, both in fact and in law”.
The same applies to all other software acquired by the Commission,” it went on, further noting: “New data protection rules for the EU institutions and bodies came into force on 11 December 2018.
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