The European Commission has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the European Union in the ongoing legal dispute between Microsoft Inc. and the United States. The case, which has been widely covered following Microsoft’s victory in the Second Circuit , concerns whether the United States can compel Microsoft to turn over information stored […]
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Microsoft has debuted Compliance Manager, a tool to help firms meet GDPR requirements and manage their compliance processes. Source: Microsoft Offers Product To Help Firms With GDPR Compliance 11/20/2017
The European Union is to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court in its hearing of the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal against a ruling which prevented prosecutors from gaining access to emails held by Microsoft in Ireland. Source: EU to intervene in Microsoft’s U.S. Supreme Court data protection case
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy has submitted independent expert advice to the US Supreme Court in a landmark case. The court is to decide on the validity of a search warrant which requires Microsoft to hand over the entire contents of an email account housed in its data centre located in […]
he UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy has submitted independent expert advice to the US Supreme Court in a landmark case. The court is to decide on the validity of a search warrant which requires Microsoft to hand over the entire contents of an email account housed in its data centre located in […]
Last Monday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Microsoft search warrant case , a case in which Microsoft challenged the U.S. government’s right to use the warrant process to obtain certain emails stored overseas. Some view the upcoming decision as signaling the level of access the U.S. government will have to the growing troves […]
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the federal government’s case against Microsoft, in which it seeks access to emails held overseas. Source: Supreme Court to hear federal case against Microsoft on email privacy
Following the launch of Windows 10 in July 2015, the CNIL was alerted through the press and by letters from political parties on potential violations of the French Data Protection Act. Seven online observations have been carried out between April and June 2016. On this occasion, several violations have been found and in particular: excessive […]
Malware-laced PowerPoint files are nothing new. One well-known case involved the spread of Sandworm malware a few years ago. But several recent spam campaigns have taken advantage of a PowerPoint trick that makes it possible to drop malware without requiring the click of a link. Source: Infection by Mouseover: PowerPoint Spam
Microsoft breaches the Dutch data protection law by processing personal data of people that use the Windows 10 operating system on their computers. This is the conclusion of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) after its investigation of Windows 10 Home and Pro. Source: Dutch DPA: Microsoft breaches data protection law with Windows 10 | […]