ISSUE 5 - JULY 31, 2020
Newsletter The latest privacy news, views and announcements
Good morning. We hope you enjoyed the last week of the month and are ready to kick back for the weekend. I don’t know about you but we can taste the BBQ already! Read on for some privacy news highlights, detail on our new appointment at Beacon AI and more.
PRIVACY NEWS IN BRIEF EDPS Statement - “Schrems II”
The European Data Protection Supervisor has
Microsoft accused of sharing Office 365 data to 3rd Parties A new class action filed with the District Court
issued a statement following the Court of Justice ruling in Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd and
of San Francisco claims that Microsoft "routinely Maximilian Schrems (“Schrems II”.) and automatically” shares Office 365 data with Facebook and other third parties.
The EDPS welcomes that the Court of Justice of the European Union, in its landmark Grand
The 38-page lawsuit out of California alleges
Chamber judgment of 16 July 2020, reaffirmed
that although Microsoft assures those who pay
the importance of maintaining a high level of
for its business-class Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange cloud-based services that their data will only be used to provide the
protection of personal data transferred from the European Union to third countries. The
services they purchased, the tech behemoth has
EDPS will continue to strive, as a member of
surreptitiously shared their emails, documents,
the European Data Protection Board (EDPB),
contacts, calendars, and other data with
to achieve the necessary coherent approach
unauthorized parties – and profited off the information. According to the case, Microsoft also shares business customers’ data with “hundreds of subcontractors,” sometimes referred to as “subprocessors,” in order to “serve Microsoft’s separate commercial ventures,” which include developing artificial intelligence applications and development interfaces.
among the European supervisory authorities in the implementation of the EU framework for international transfers of personal data.