{"id":988129,"date":"2026-01-28T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988129"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:48:01","slug":"microsoft-ordered-to-stop-tracking-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/microsoft-ordered-to-stop-tracking-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austria&#8217;s data protection authority has ordered Microsoft to stop the use of tracking cookies in education software, a privacy campaign group said Tuesday, marking its latest victory against the US tech giant. <\/p>\n<p>Online rights campaigners Noyb filed two complaints against Microsoft in 2024, saying the company&#8217;s education software that is widely used in schools violates data protection rights for children. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Austrian data protection authority DSB determined that Microsoft &#8220;illegally&#8221; tracked students using its education software and must grant them access to their data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria&#8217;s data protection authority has ordered Microsoft to stop the use of tracking cookies in education software, a privacy campaign group said Tuesday, marking its latest victory against the US tech giant. Online rights campaigners Noyb filed two complaints against Microsoft in 2024, saying the company&#8217;s education software that is widely used in schools violates data protection rights for children. Last year, Austrian data protection authority DSB determined that Microsoft &#8220;illegally&#8221; tracked students using its education software and must grant them access to their data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}