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Summary: Another video with more personal thoughts about the ongoing series about Microsoft and Europe's second-largest institution, which colluded with Microsoft to violate the law and also to violate the privacy of countless people (not just EPO staff)

THE series we started a couple of days ago is reaching EPO staff, but it is also reaching the general public because it concerns many issues beyond the EPO and Microsoft. What we have at stake is potential prosecution (Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos cannot claim not to know what they do), major fines, and even outright bans in Europe.

So far in the series we've had:

• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate

Following part 4, which we published some hours ago, I decided to add some personal thoughts. My old concerns about the EPO (mostly European software patents) have turned into something a lot broader. We need to discuss these issues and work towards tackling them. ⬆