I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
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Re: I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
#2If you think that’s creepy check out Microsoft Delve.
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#3> your profile details including your email address and phone number, and a detailed analysis of what you were wearing on the call. (I may have made up that last one.)
I think it's annoying the author chose to throw in a joke about the very point he is trying to make - that what is tracked is excessive. Or maybe this is "whoosh" over my head and I missed the point.
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#4It is so tiring to be in an endless circle of people trying to find a new way to reach for more than they should and having to wait years for the common sense to become fact...
There really shouldn't be this much delay between tech advancing and legal frameworks figuring out how the old rights apply to our new environment.
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#5I personally find Teams to be an abomination.
I asked my wife the other day, who isn't familiar with Slack or Teams, to look at the interfaces and tell me how to IM an individual. She glanced at Slack and pointed to the list of users. She looked at Teams and said "I have no idea".
Slack practically invites me to reach out to people. Teams OTOH makes me want to send an email. Now you can add this tracking to the list of things I detest about Teams.
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#6I remember when I first started working and was surprised to learn that email admins could and would read email. When I asked HR for their policy on this they said they had none and the company can do anything they want with employee activity. This was the 90s and was true then as it is now.
Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff.
This has always been legal and recorded, Microsoft just makes it easier. And I think maybe even better since at least the information is audited and not available to any random sysadmin.
This just makes me choose my employers more carefully as while they certainly have this data to abuse, fortunately few do not.
The risk of a micromanager misusing the information mentioned in this article isn’t one of privacy, but one of being a crappy manager. If someone ever remarked on the amount of screen sharing I did or did not use as if that metric mattered, it would just help me not work for them.
If someone is forced to work for someone, it’s extremely easy to game this metric and maintain privacy.
I learned decades ago to assume everything on company property is recorded and stored for ever. That’s why I have personal property that the company isn’t able to access so I can conduct personal activities with some level of privacy.
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#7Does it tell them home many times it goes active to away? :)
Re: I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
#8I remember when I first started working and was surprised to learn that email admins could and would read email. When I asked HR for their policy on this they said they had none and the company can do anything they want with employee activity. This was the 90s and was true then as it is now. Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff. This has always been legal and recorded, Microsoft just makes it easier. And I think maybe e…
> Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff.
If I logon to my personal banking website while at work, and my employer MITM's that connection to snoop, have they genuinely not broken any law?
Re: I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
#9I remember when I first started working and was surprised to learn that email admins could and would read email. When I asked HR for their policy on this they said they had none and the company can do anything they want with employee activity. This was the 90s and was true then as it is now. Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff. This has always been legal and recorded, Microsoft just makes it easier. And I think maybe e…
> Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff. If I logon to my personal banking website while at work, and my employer MITM's that connection to snoop, have they genuinely not broken any law?
It depends on which country you're in.
Re: I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
#10I remember when I first started working and was surprised to learn that email admins could and would read email. When I asked HR for their policy on this they said they had none and the company can do anything they want with employee activity. This was the 90s and was true then as it is now. Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff. This has always been legal and recorded, Microsoft just makes it easier. And I think maybe e…
> Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff. If I logon to my personal banking website while at work, and my employer MITM's that connection to snoop, have they genuinely not broken any law?
I'm sure somewhere in the many legal documents you signed to start the job (given to you after you've already resigned from your previous job, of course) you give them the right to do so.