Microsoft faces complaint over kids’ data rights
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning. Today is Tuesday, June 4th. I'm Julie Morgan. One group says Microsoft is collecting too much |
| 0:15.8 | information about children. Grail is taking off on its own and now that the |
| 0:21.0 | glitch has been fixed the trades will be too. |
| 0:25.0 | An advocacy group has filed complaints with the Austrian Data Protection Authority against Microsoft, |
| 0:31.0 | alleging that the company's 365 education services violate children's |
| 0:36.1 | data protection rights. |
| 0:38.1 | NOYB is the advocacy group, which means none of your business, said that software vendors like Microsoft have market power, |
| 0:46.5 | which allows them to dictate the terms of contracts with anyone who wants to use their products. |
| 0:52.2 | At the same time, the software providers tried to dodge responsibility |
| 0:56.0 | by insisting that almost all of it lies with local authorities or schools. |
| 1:01.0 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, online education program saw a surge as schools switched to remote teaching |
| 1:07.7 | and implemented digital services for online learning. |
| 1:11.3 | The group added that when students wanted to exercise their general data protection |
| 1:15.8 | regulation or GDPR rights, Microsoft said schools were the controller for their data. |
| 1:22.0 | However, NOYB noted that the schools have no control over the systems. |
| 1:27.0 | The second complaint focuses on cookies installed in Microsoft's 365 education. |
| 1:32.9 | Advertisers usually use cookies |
| 1:35.2 | to track certain types of user data. |
| 1:37.7 | NOYB has asked the Austrian Data Protection Authority |
| 1:41.1 | or DSB to investigate and analyze what data is |
| 1:44.7 | being processed by Microsoft 365 education. The organization also |
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