At least Zoom was clear that they were gonna use your private information to train AI systems. Microsoft, however, is being ambiguous and shady about it.
@mozilla is leaning on them to be clear about it. And you can help by signing their petition.
In 2020, the EU-level judiciary decreed #SchremsII whereby customers of US cloud service providers must themselves verify the data protection laws of the recipient country, document its risk assessment and confer with its customers.
In 2021, various French-state-level authorities stated that #MSOffice365 did not conform (to doctrine and #GDPR) or that secondary education schools should avoid it. 👇
Storing data in "the Cloud" legally constitutes data processing.
#MicrosoftOutlook: "Synchronisation with the Microsoft server" transfers your data to Microsoft.
The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Ulrich Kelber, described the data collection as "alarming" and announced his intention to pursue at European level: https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665