German state of Hesse bans cloud services from schools due to privacy risks

[rahuldottech]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germany-threatens-to-break-up-with-microsoft-office-again/

[yorwba]

Dupe (different article, same topic): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439545

[dang → yorwba]

Thanks. Comments moved thither.

[jwildeboer]

Headline is at least misleading, IMHO plain wrong. This is only in Hesse, one of the 16 states. This doesn’t mean this interpretation of the Hesse Data Protection Office is valid for the whole of Germany. /pedantic

[apeace → jwildeboer]

Also misleading because of this, right at the top of the article:

> What is true for Microsoft is also true for the Google and Apple cloud solutions. The cloud solutions of these providers have so far not been transparent and comprehensibly set out. Therefore, it is also true that for schools the privacy-compliant use is currently not possible. > - Hessian commissioner of Data Protection and Freedom of Information

[dang → jwildeboer]

Thanks. That seems particularly shameless. We've edited the title above.

[solarkraft → jwildeboer]

The headline is correct as soon as Office 365 is declared illegal in 2 german schools due to privacy risks :-) /pedantic

I do agree that it is misleading though. It should be more like "declared illegal in german state".