France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school due to cloud data sovereignty, competition, and privacy rules

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In August, Philippe Latombe, a member of the French National Assembly, advised Pap Ndiaye, the minister of national education, that the free version of Microsoft Office 365, while appealing, amounts to a form of illegal dumping. He asked the education minister what he intends to do, given the data sovereignty issues involved with storing personal data in an American cloud service.

German data protection authorities came to a similar conclusion in 2019 when they disallowed Microsoft Office 365 in classrooms in the state of Hessen.

See https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/france_no_windows_google/

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source https://gadgeteer.co.za/france-says-non-to-office-365-and-google-workspace-in-school-due-to-cloud-data-sovereignty-competition-and-privacy-rules/