Does this affect the basic plan?
If upgrading to Plus, does it include past messages?
Guide to Slack import and export tools
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#112#deleteSlack
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#113Jesus, nobody here has any clue what they're talking about.
Slack has allowed companies to read private messages for well over a year. It has been called "compliance exports" and you as a slack user could always see if you had them turned on, as well as which individuals had access to read your private messages. Source: CTO of a unicorn confirmed he had used this feature to read private communications (private rooms and DMs), source 2 - used this page myself at multiple companies
Employers had to pay for this privilege. It's super unclear to me what the new policy is-- it looks like there's still no privacy but it happens via API.
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#114Looking at all positive comments here, this is generally a bad news. Not sure how much compliant this is with the law, but in this case the law should be more protective towards employees. I imagine the following situation I write on a company-owned piece of paper - "My boss is an idiot". Then take this piece of paper put it in an envelope ( owned by the company as well ), write the name of my colleague and seal the…
> Not sure how much compliant this is with the law, but in this case the law should be more protective towards employees.
This change is precisely because of regulations like GDPR, among others.
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#115Previously, you could only see employee DMs if you turned on Compliance Exports, at which point you could download all of them going forward . Now it sounds like everything you've ever written could be downloaded at any time without notice. So, all of those communications you had with co-workers based on the promise they would be private until you were notified future ones wouldn't be anymore? Now it's ALL available…
It also could be other compliance requirements.
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#116As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY. Don't get me wrong--it's not like I want to read your messages and very likely won't. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern acc…
LOL. I was about to write a post with this exact first line. Thank you for beating me to it.
Re: Guide to Slack import and export tools
#117Looking at all positive comments here, this is generally a bad news. Not sure how much compliant this is with the law, but in this case the law should be more protective towards employees. I imagine the following situation I write on a company-owned piece of paper - "My boss is an idiot". Then take this piece of paper put it in an envelope ( owned by the company as well ), write the name of my colleague and seal the…
In broker-dealer finance, it is illegal to not log and audit all business communications. Additionally, you have to contract with a government-approved agency to save the logs in a manner that cannot be tampered with. I think we even have to save it in a format that is easy for government agencies to review and search if necessary.
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#118As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY. Don't get me wrong--it's not like I want to read your messages and very likely won't. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern acc…
> "Compare that to our email, where I can go into anyone's messages immediately if need-be. This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons." Wow, THAT is highly illegal in Europe.
Given his username he may well be from europe.
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#119As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY. Don't get me wrong--it's not like I want to read your messages and very likely won't. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern acc…
You should be fired for that comment alone.
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#120https://gph.is/1maiw0M
This sucks so much.
Does anybody know if deleted messages get deleted for real? Or only just marked as deleted in the database?
This couldn't be an early April Fools joke, could it?