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Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December (www.heise.de)

submitted 2 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Homme_Tanks@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I wonder if I'm not the only one: Nearly every time I fire up Teams at home for the weekly progress meeting, it tries to trick me into selecting an option letting 'my organization' have administrative control over my entire PC