A lot of companies have existing contracts with Microsoft regarding data management, but those contracts are probably not relevant to an "almost branch of Microsoft".
"While indiscriminate backdoors might be cheaper for the State than alternative investigative measures, they were expensive for society at large on account of the security risks they produced," EISI told the ECHR.
It's great when someone with some sway actually gets it.
If it works and you are still figuring things out, I suggest not taking specific action right now. Use your package manager to keep your system up to date and it will deal with this in due time.
No, we (most supermarkets in Sweden) get a wireless scanner handle that we have with us in the store. So we scan each item when we take it from the shelf and put it in the bag/cart. When we get to the self checkout we just put the handle back and pay.
I live in Sweden. The system in the Netherlands sounds similar to what we have. There are also wireless scanners you can use throughout the store if you don't want to use your phone.
I managed to convince one long distance friend a few years ago. So now I need to keep Signal just to be able to communicate with him.