Microsoft Teams makes presence fiction in home office more difficult: With an update, the platform will track an employee's location via the office Wi-Fi.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51826091

Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company’s own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    Right… and to be clear every single Microsoft product can do so too. In fact every single proprietary software can do that. If you value your privacy and nobody can audit the code, you should assume it’s being used to report your behavior. It might be aggregated, it might be anonymized, but it might not be and it might be to your boss.

    That’s the “beauty” of closed source : you do not know, so you should assume the worst.

    Edit : “Oh but what about GDPR?” true, well check the ToS and probably find that data is being collected for “quality service and potentially other uses (including but not limited to AI)” in the fine prints.