European Comission recommends against using Microsoft software for privacy reasons

EDPS (the European Data Protection Supervisor) warns member states against using Microsoft software, because privacy of data is not guaranteed. In this EDPS is following an earlier recommendation by the dutch government.

Dutch government recommends against using Microsoft products that do not comply with GDPR

A report by Privacy Company, commissioned by the Dutch government, has found privacy risks in Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise and mobile apps, that are possible violations of GDPR.
The Dutch government discourages the use of this software.
In a reaction on previous remarks, Microsoft made modifications to Office 365 Pro Plus, which is now in line with GDPR.

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GDPR compliance of dominant IT consumer platforms

ForbrukerRadet, the Norwegian Consumer Counsils, published a report Deceived By Design on privacy compliance with GDPR in the dominant IT consumer platforms.

youronlinechoices.com: an industry funded joke

With GDPR in operation, a lot of sites refer to youronlinechoices.com to manage your advertising cookies. On the homepage of the site you can select your country and language and then go to your advertising preferences. Sometimes you are directed to the preferences page directly.

The site lists (for me) 116 advertising sites, with for each company an on/off status. The site is a self-regulating, industry funded site.
Only... it does not work. For the 116 sites, only 14 show a response, the rest time out.

The site allows you to switch advertising on/off for individual companies. As it is not practical to click 116 buttons, there is a handy option to switch them all on or off.
Only... it does not work. Just like you could expect, the operation times out.

Most companies have an edaa certified label. You can click on the label to see the certification the advertising company received.
Only... it does not work. This is what you get:

Sorry, the page you are looking for either doesn't exist or something has gone wrong. Please go back to the home page and try again. Thank you.

At the bottom of the page there is a feedback mail adress. I signaled the problems to them.
Only... it does not work. After more then a month i did not even get a mail confirming the receipt of my message.

So much for industry self regulation.

I'll start listing companies using this bogus site to manage your privacy here:
- rabobank.be