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GDPR rights are being ignored. In practice, this leads to a situation where Microsoft is trying to contractually dump most of its legal responsibilities under the GDPR on schools that provide Microsoft 365 Education services to their pupils or students.

Trying to find out exactly what privacy policies or documents apply to the use of Microsoft 365 Education is an expedition in itself. There is a serious lack of transparency, forcing users and schools to navigate a maze of privacy policies, documents, terms and contracts that all seem to apply. The information provided in these documents is always slightly different, but consistently vague about what actually happens to children’s data when they use Microsoft 365 Education services.

Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “Microsoft provides such vague information that even a qualified lawyer can’t fully understand how the company processes personal data in Microsoft 365 Education. It is almost impossible for children or their parents to uncover the extent of Microsoft’s data collection.”

Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb: “Our analysis of the data flows is very worrying. Microsoft 365 Education appears to track users regardless of their age. This practice is likely to affect hundreds of thousands of pupils and students in the EU and EEA. Authorities should finally step up and effectively enforce the rights of minors.”

As the terms and conditions and the privacy documentation of Microsoft 365 Education are uniform for the EU/EEA, all children living in these countries are exposed to the same violations of their GDPR rights. Therefore, noyb also suggests that the authority should impose a fine on Microsoft.

Norway has some surprising stats by XTL in c/funny@sh.itjust.works

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would be funny if it wasn't complete bs. Except for the amazing time part. They're fun folk.

Anon hates aluminum by XTL in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 112 points 1 year ago

These two clearly don't know about titanium.

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Thagomizer (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

This was the first result on Google by XTL in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Almost every sentence. But funny self review and other things aside, main problems:

"Watts... Contains." Is a fundamental confusion on what a watt is. It's like asking how much fast there is in a box.

The answer has a good basic idea, but also a total comprehension failure not just pulling the numbers out of thin air, but badly describing an equation with watts on one side and watt hours on another. The answer is both ignoring realities and getting the hypotheticals wrong. Sounds expertish but is both wrong and useless.

When they could have just said "yes, you could use a suitable inverter with a suitable battery and a fridge in some cases, but the math and actual connections would be more complicated than that explanation" or something like that.