🎉 First WIN of 2026: the Austrian DPA has ordered Microsoft to stop tracking school children

@noybeu "The DSB rejected that argument and held that, in fact, Microsoft US is making the relevant decisions. US big tech companies regularly argue that they fall under Irish jurisdiction, because the Irish Data Protection Commission is known to hardly enforce EU law."

Finally

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@noybeu does this ruling affect all microsoft products? because school children could use any of them and be tracked.

@shironeko The decision relates to "Microsoft 365 Education". However, it cannot be ruled out that Microsoft also tracks in Microsoft 365 – the standard Office suite.

@noybeu Don't use Microsoft's software in schools. Problem solved.