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Microsoft: We’re changing all your cloud contracts after privacy complaints

November 18, 2019

Via: ZDnet
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Microsoft is rolling out new privacy provisions in its Online Services Terms (OST) contracts for all commercial customers after European privacy regulators began investigating it over potential violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) last month said it had “serious concerns” over Microsoft’s contracts with European institutions and compliance with GDPR rules.

It kicked off an investigation in April after the Dutch Ministry of Justice found that telemetry data Microsoft collected from Office 365 ProPlus and Office 365 users violated GDPR.

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