The use of LibreOffice should be mandated by law for any EU or Governmental departments. But then what would 16 Lobbyists do in Brussels all day?<p><a href="https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/microsoft-corporation?rid=0801162959-21" rel="nofollow">https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/microsoft-corporation?rid...</a>
European Commission's disdain for rule of law gets demonstrated once again. First with Schrems I, Schrems II cases, where the commission kept editing documents struck down by CJEU by couple sentences only for the same document (but renamed) to be struck down once again, then now. See Safe Harbor, EU-US Privacy Shield and the "new" TADPF.
It is still beyond me why a common tool as a word processor needs to be an always online web-app. This cloud thing to this day feels like an inferior technical solution that's being forced by big companies at the detriment of end users, not to mention the privacy downsides.<p>And I say that as someone who earns his keep doing cloud stuff.
Microsoft really doesn’t have much competition in the collaborative unified office suite experience. Closest competitor would be Google, as if it’s any better. Fine grained permissions control and tight integrations into applications such as Outlook and Teams make the D365 experience easy and attractive for organizations to use.<p>Microsoft does provide the tools to keep data storage compliant with EU data rules.<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/eudb/eu-data-boundary-learn" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/eudb/eu-data-bound...</a>
Does anyone know how section 702 of FISA fits into this? I was under the impression that s.702 allows secret, warrantless access to data stored in European subsidiaries of US corporations even if the data is domiciled in the EU.<p>The linked article talks about limiting international data transfers, but that wouldn't fully address the s.702 issue, would it? Do they also have to ensure that the data is subject to the new DPF framework negotiated with the US (replacement for Privacy Shield)?
I am in an antenna of IPCC in France and we are currently evaluating collaborative suites. On the shortlist are M365, Collabora online + LibreOffice and OnlyOffice + NextCloud.
I am having a look at making a small portion of IPCC move from Microsoft Word to LibreOffice Writer.
Surprise, surprise, the commission can't follow it's own regulations.<p>I hope they also hold the Commission and member state governments to account w.r.t. regulation 2016/679 (more commonly known as GDPR).<p>Not because I care very much about personal data, but because knowing how things are done in civil service organizations, all government business will grind to a halt for a decade or so.
Microsoft has multiple data centers online within EU: Ireland, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden.<p>Is there any evidence of the transfers of personal data outside the EU?