Microsoft 365 faces GDPR challenges in Europe following German report

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Microsoft 365 faces GDPR challenges in Europe following a German report
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Microsoft 365 faces GDPR challenges in Europe following a German report

Microsoft has failed to clarify the wording of its contracts and its data retention and deletion rules don't always adhere to GDPR, German regulators have found

Microsoft is finding itself in an increasingly precarious situation in the European Union (EU), where a working group of German data protection regulators has come to the conclusion that the Americ...

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