I'm surprised that Slack was so widely adopted without this capability already available.
Guide to Slack import and export tools
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Re: Guide to Slack import and export tools
#132Like everyone else I'm more shocked that this wasn't available by default.
I'm not sure if this applies to the last (work) Slack I was part of. The company blocked it over a year ago and presumably deleted it shortly after. I just checked and it is deleted now.
As far as I know, since it was setup by a middle manager (who lasted two weeks) and then blocked, it was probably on the free plan as well.
I'm not really concerned for myself, as I always assume all my interactions on a work machine are monitored, but people did occasionally send me things that they probably wanted to be off the record. Not sure if I should warn them that there's a (small) chance that their messages could now be read.
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#133As 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.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Provenance. I can doctor my local logs just about as quickly as I can type. True, it's a bit harder than some people estimate to keep the whole thing coherent, but that just means that you hear about the people who get caught, but not the ones who do it successfully. If I am capable of doctoring Slack's copy of the logs with sufficient effort, it is certainly orders of magnitude harder and much legally riskier (as I…
That's easy to disprove, though. Make them log into their slack on a new computer, and they'll have no opportunity to doctor them.
It's got enterprise auth, they could just as easily login to the Slack account themselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#135As 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.
Really? I like to consider myself much more privacy-minded than most, but I would expect an email assigned to an employee to be used for official business purposes should definitely have a paper trail that higher-ups can audit if necessary.
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#136*can access.
In some countries it's illegal for employer to read employees private messages.
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#137As 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.
Every big enterprise on the planet has your email to whip-out and read if legal issues arise, whether that's for internal reasons or for something like SOX compliance or running into problems with the SEC. It's a total necessity for big public companies.
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#138I'm finding myself in a situation where this is actually kind of welcome news involving a workplace bully who operates via DM.
I'm moving on very soon, but I've shared many of our interactions with management, management has even seen first hand how he openly insults other engineers.
Instead of doing anything about it, management announced we had been acquired and over the course of about 12 days slowly resigned leaving us with the new company.
New company promoted the bully.
Hopefully others speak up as I have and this new feature can help some people get relief from the guy.
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#139Jesus, 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…
Previously if compliance exports were turned off, then later turned on, users would receive a notification that all future DM's would be available for export by their employer.
My understanding is that now the entire archive is readily available for download, including the content from before compliance exports was turned on.
Re: Guide to Slack import and export tools
#140As 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…
There's an infinite space of solutions to your particular problem, but your chosen solution is totalitarian surveillance in the workplace because an intern got offended? I avoid workplaces which force shit like this. So do all the good developers I know, because they're people who can afford to be choosy. Bullies are pretty adept at functioning in these environments. Instead of harassing on monitored DMs, they'll mak…
> totalitarian surveillance
> got offended
> Bullies
> soul-destroying shithole
It's funny how these sort of comments always come from recently created throwaway accounts.