Microsoft’s cloud services has run into a fresh roadblock in Germany, after the state of Hesse ruled it is illegal for its schools to use Office 365 citing “privacy concerns.” The Hesse ...

To allay privacy fears in Germany, Microsoft invested millions in a German cloud service, and in 2017 Hesse authorities said local schools could use Office 365. If German data remained in the ...

This data can include email subject lines, and any phrases that you use Microsoft’s software to ... data that’s sent to the company when Office 365 is connected to a work or school account.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, some German regulators – specifically, those in Hesse – have decided that Office 365's cloud technology ... this is not a blanket ban on all cloud tools, noting ...

At least as determined by the Hesse region in Germany ... into a national ban. One that other countries within the EU may soon decide to follow. It’s not impossible for Microsoft to fix this.

The French education ministry recently urged schools in the country to stop using free versions of Microsoft 365 over privacy concerns, and now a similar sentiment is brewing in Germany.

In response, Microsoft has now released a new variant of its Office 365 service, called 'Office 365 Germany' to meet the obligations of organizations operating under substantial regulations in ...

Both Germany and France prohibit the use of free versions of Microsoft Office 365 in education. Similar to France, Germany has concluded that the app gathers data from the user's machines and ...

The state of Hesse in Germany has banned the use of Microsoft Office 365, the cloud version of the Microsoft Office suite, over claims that it potentially enables surveillance. The issue ...