Microsoft is also taking legal action against surveillance laws. Thus, proceedings against Secret Order became known in the near future and I reported about it. Now there is another case that Microsoft is using to get clarification from the U.S. Supreme Court and to support the ACLU. Download: Microsoft-amicus_5.27.pdf
The secret access to customer data – Microsoft always wants to inform customers
It is known from judgments (e.g. SchremsII), legal texts (e.g. PRISM) and expert commissions that there are so-called “Secret Orders” in the USA. These allow the US intelligence services, such as the NSA or CIA, to access customer data from US cloud providers if there is a suspicion of terrorism, for example. This access is […]
Microsoft with new strong commitment to privacy in Europe and new measures and addendum
In recent months, there has been and still is an increasing number of discussions about data protection and privacy-friendly use of Microsoft 365 and Azure. This discussion has not only increased due to the Schrems 2 ruling on July 16, 2020, but also due to checklists and statements by the European Data Protection Board. Microsoft […]
After Safe Habor and Privacy Shield comes the next agreement?
On 16 July 2020 the time had come for Privacy Shield. After Safe Harbor, the Senate of the European Court of Justice now also took the successor Privacy Shield. However, this should not be the end of the agreements between the EU Commission and the US Department of Commerce to put the processing of personal […]
Schrems2 – the end of Privacy Shield between the EU and the USA
On 16 July 2020, the European Court of Justice handed down its ruling in the case of Schrems v Facebook, which had to rule on the validity of the processing of personal data in the USA by means of Privacy Shield and EU standard contract clauses (EU Modelclauses) following a referral by the Higher Court […]