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Privacy Company is the company blog at privacycompany.eu, writing about security and business. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Microsoft collects data about individual use of Word,Excel,PowerPoint&Outlook”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on Microsoft's enterprise products gathering personal data, impact assessments and the German Impressum requirement. The comments cite the posts as sources without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Microsoft collects data about individual use of Word,Excel,PowerPoint&Outlook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-15
- DPIA for the Dutch Government and Universities on Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-23
What Hacker News says?
I would argue that there are two distinct kinds of trust here: - Legal trust: Lawyers draft hundreds of pages specifying what may and may not be done with the data. - Evidence-based trust: Looking at Microsofts actual track record, past privacy incidents, regulatory findings, and whether its data-handling practices have matched its disclosures and contractual commitments. For the latter point, here is a nice summary…
Comment linking /blog/new-dpia-on-microsoft-office-and-windows-software-still-privacy-risks-remaining-long-blog
on “Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude”Submitted Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining as a story · 318 points
HN discussionThis should be switched to the original source: https://www.privacycompany.eu/en/impact-assessment-shows-pri...
Comment linking /en/impact-assessment-shows-privacy-risks-microsoft-office-proplus-enterprise/
on “Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users”Submitted Microsoft collects data about individual use of Word,Excel,PowerPoint&Outlook as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt comes from Impressum, essentially a form of identification for publishers, but imprint is the English word used for the German legal requirement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-en/the-imprint-requir...
Comment linking /blogpost-en/the-imprint-requirement-a-must-have-for-companies-from-outside-germany
on “Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative”Submitted Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMicrosoft made it work for governments/universities. But not the rest of us. https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-en/new-dpia-for-the-d...
Comment linking /blogpost-en/new-dpia-for-the-dutch-government-and-universities-on-microsoft-teams-onedrive-and-sharepoint-online
on “Meta Fined $1.3B Over Data Transfers to U.S.”Submitted DPIA for the Dutch Government and Universities on Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint as a story · 2 points
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