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Re:German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is i... by aliqot on Saturday November 26, 2022 @09:40AM (#33753005)
This will literally, not figuratively, but -literally- never happen. A smaller business will never be punished as a signal to Microsoft.
Re:German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is i... by someweirdperson on Saturday November 26, 2022 @10:12AM (#33753276)
A websites using wordpress got fined for including google fonts. Not the organization that provides wordpress using google fonts by default.

Likewise, a company using O365 to store customer or employee data will get in trouble, not Microsoft for offering that service.

Re:German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is i... by aliqot on Saturday November 26, 2022 @10:22AM (#33753353)
That's not what's being discussed. My comment asserts with certainty that a small business will never be punished as leverage against the upstream big corp.
Re:German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is i... by someweirdperson on Saturday November 26, 2022 @10:59AM (#33753669)
It's not Microsofts fault if customers use it to store GDPR relevant data. It's Microsofts customers using them as an external data processor. It's the companies that are using O356 for such data that will get fined.
Re:German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is i... by jeroenhd on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:41AM (#33754136)
The fine is not to send a signal to Microsoft. The fine is a punishment for letting Microsoft process personal information when it's know that they do so in a way that violates the GDPR.

The €100 fine to that one website that included Google Fonts wasn't an attempt to get Google to put Google Fonts in a European holding or whatever. That was never going to happen. It was to punish that website for breaking the law.

Before anything like this will hit the news, there would first be a massive lawsuit that will probably take months or years. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft would throw lawyer money to the company involved just to make sure the lawsuit doesn't end setting a precedent against their product.

Never underestimate German courts and their willingness to uphold privacy laws when they get challenged.