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

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know why anyone would expect otherwise from Teams?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I assumed Teams already did this. MS Lync (Teams predecessor) could be configured to do something similar to this.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is on work devices controlled by company-run AD/Azure/whatever MS calls it these days. This is not something you need to worry about on a personal device.

This is also part of why I willingly carry two phones while on the clock. When I'm off the clock, my work devices get shut off and kept in my backpack until next shift. Very few people I work with have my personal number, and they know never to use it except for life/death emergencies or memes.

[+] Dashi@lemmy.world -11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I understand the hate on teams. But this is too allow for the correct location data for e911 and first responders. This makes sure they show up at the correct building when Tim goes from hq to the production building and has a emergency and calls 911 via teams.

Edit: lmao, sorry for trying to add some context and activity to the post. I'll stay out of this community. <3

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's so your boss can spy on you more...

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stuff can be two things

[–] MrTrono@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anybody who calls 911 from teams deserves to die anyway

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry to inject some shades of gray into your very black and white life but your supervisor actually needs to know where you are if there's a fire or something. Or, at least, mine does.

[–] MrTrono@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really because up until now it hasn't seemed to be a problem? Everybody seems to be managing just fine without it for the last 10 years, and organizations using different communication tools seem to make do.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Teams doing it automatically based on what network your computer is connecting to might be appealing to places where it's been tracked manually. I'm not saying they aren't doing it to monitor work from home, but acting like they're mustache-twirling villains with nothing but malice behind their decisions just gives people a reason to disregard you.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Malice first. Then maneuver the safety angle second for PR Purposes.

The same thing the evils do with regressing rights to privacy.. "It's for the children"

And what are we taking about here?? That's right, privacy regression.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

E911 location is handled by the carrier on mobile devices, not Teams. To my knowledge, Teams doesn't do 911. Either that, or you're conflating the onsite ERT for city/county EMS. Every place I've worked that has onsite ERT has their own emergency number, which is specific to that campus. Onsite ERT coordinates with EMS in emergencies, as EMS doesn't know where "M Chase in Building 50" is. ERT does.

[–] Dashi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Plan and manage emergency calling - Microsoft Teams https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/what-are-emergency-locations-addresses-and-call-routing

You can send the same sort of information to your ERT based on your wireless connection. I can configure an AP to tag your call via teams to a several hundred square feet area and even a floor depending on how the wireless is setup. This is just bringing that functionality to teams for ERT or 911.

I hate to say it but if you are working on a company computer, just assume they know everything and see everything anyway.

Afraid of your company finding out your working from home instead of the office? They can pull that information from the VPN logs or dhcp logs. Not connecting to the VPN? I can find out because your computer isn't resolving internal addresses is trying to connect to and it's logging that in your event logs.

Worried your boss is going to find out your working out of your buddies office instead of your own? I can figure that out based off ap connection logs.

Just assume you don't have privacy on your company laptop. But noooooo MS tracking your location for ert/e911/911 or whatever you want, for your SAFTEY yeah that's the problem here.

[–] MrTrono@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Get fucked

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Right. Itz fEr yer sAhfety. Neackxt Wh'eel racOarD fer sehCuritEE.