UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365 The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts Share this item with your network: By Published: 17 Dec 2020 9:30 Police forces across the UK stand accused of unlawfully processing people’s personal data within the Microsoft 365 cloud productivity platform, after failing to carry out the required data protection checks before deploying the technology, a Computer Weekly investigation has found. Thirty police forces are involved in a national roll-out of Microsoft 365 (M365) as part of the National Enabling Programme (NEP), which was jointly created in 2017 by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) to spearhead the delivery of new cloud-enabled ways of working for the police.