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.

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

Disgusting.

If Governments moved away from american corporate software, and funded opensource software, maybe smaller businesses would also move to opensource software, it being free.

Find an alternative or pirate Adobe Find an alternative or pirate Microsoft Find an alternative or pirate Windows