Microsoft is being sued for allegedly sharing its Office 365 customers' business data with Facebook app developers, partners, and subcontractors in violation of its data privacy promises. The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in San Francisco, on behalf of plaintiffs Frank Russo, Koonan Litigation Consulting, and Sumner Davenport & Associates, all Office 365 customers. The complaint says that – while Microsoft has repeatedly promised its business customers that it would only use their data to provide purchased services, that it would share their data with subcontractors only on a need-to-know basis, and that it will never share their data with third-parties – those claims are false. "In fact, contrary to its representations, Microsoft has regularly shared – and continues to share – its business customers' data with Facebook and other third parties," the complaint says. "The data is shared even when neither the customers nor their contacts are Facebook users." [...] In particular, the plaintiffs claim that Microsoft automatically shares customers' business contacts with Facebook, without consent, whether or not the customers or their contacts are Facebook users. "Even if a customer discovers and disables this Facebook-sharing 'feature' after activating Office 365 or Exchange Online services, the damage has already been done," [...] "At that point, the business customer’s contacts have been shared with Facebook. As Microsoft explains in an obscure technical instruction, '[o]nce contacts are transferred to Facebook, they cannot be deleted from Facebook's systems except by Facebook.'" Continua su https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/20/microsoft_office_data_facebook/ Giacomo