La pasada semana, el CNIL (la comisión de protección de datos nacional de Fráncia) emitió un comunicado oficial en el cual determina que Microsoft una cantidad de datos sobre los usuarios y les obliga a cumplir con la normativas y leyes de protección de datos, se ha decretado que tienen un plazo de tres meses para realizar los cambios y ajustes necesarios para ajustarse a las leyes o por el contrario se enfrentarán a multas en Francia.
Como respuesta al comunicado, Microsoft responde que estará encantado de trabajar con el CNIL para llegar a una solución aceptable al problema, pero no niega las acusaciones hacia la empresa ni se defiende de ellas, Microsoft además ha prometido una declaración sobre la privacidad durante el próximo mes, por el momento tenemos tan solo la respuesta de Microsoft al CNIL.
Adjuntamos las declaraciones con las que David Heiner, vicepresidente y consejero general adjunto de Microsoft responde al comunicado oficial del CNIL:
“Earlier today Microsoft received a notice from the French data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, raising concerns about certain aspects of Windows 10. The notice gives Microsoft three months to address the issues.
We built strong privacy protections into Windows 10, and we welcome feedback as we continually work to enhance those protections. We will work closely with the CNIL over the next few months to understand the agency’s concerns fully and to work toward solutions that it will find acceptable.
The CNIL noted that the Safe Harbor framework is no longer valid for transferring data from European Union to the United States. We fully understand the importance of establishing a sound legal framework for trans-Atlantic data transfers, and that is why Microsoft has been very supportive of the efforts on both side of the Atlantic that led to last week’s adoption of the Privacy Shield.
As the European Commission observed, Microsoft’s January 2016 Privacy Statement states that the company adheres to the principles of the Safe Harbor Framework. Microsoft has in fact continued to live up to all of its commitments under the Safe Harbor Framework, even as the European and U.S. representatives worked toward the new Privacy Shield. As we state in our privacy statement, in addition to the Safe Harbor Framework we rely on a variety of legal mechanisms as the basis for transferring data from Europe, including standard contractual clauses, a data transfer mechanism established by the European Commission and approved by European data protection authorities, to cover data flows from the European Union to the United States.
Microsoft will release an updated privacy statement next month, and that will say Microsoft intends to adopt the Privacy Shield. We are working now toward meeting the requirements of the Privacy Shield.”
