On: Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'

[sunaookami]

All you need to know is that the EU Commission sues their own data protection commissioner because he ruled that the usage of MS365 in the Commission is illegal. So the EU Commission happily works together with Microsoft: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-365-EU-Commission-tak...

[AndyMcConachie → sunaookami]

The Irish DPA held secret meetings with Facebook about sharing EU citizens data.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/schrems-slams-sl...

The rot runs incredibly deep.

[seethedeaduu → sunaookami]

A bit of offtopic but when opening this article in the cookie consent screen I get

> Data processing by advertising providers including personalised advertising with profiling Consent required for free use

How legal is this?

[sunaookami → seethedeaduu]

It is considered illegal and is currently under investigation thanks to the wonderful Noyb organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_or_pay (the article even mentions Heise) & https://noyb.eu/en/frequently-asked-questions-about-pay-or-o...