[tflol]

You're taking about this company:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/purview-compliance

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/communication-comp...

[0xFEE1DEAD]

This is disgusting.

I did not know that Microsoft offers these tools to organizations. I'm honestly shocked that this exists. They'll 100% abuse preview to offer similar features in the future.

Over the last years/decade, they worked hard to improve their image in the tech community, and I have to admit, it worked, at least for me. They've just lost all the respect I had for them.

[kstrauser]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but in Microsoft's defense, those controls are aimed at companies working in regulated industries. They're meant to help those companies prove they they're meeting their legal and/or contractual compliance obligations.

For example, if your company works with healthcare information and is a HIPAA "covered entity", your customers will demand to see proof that you're using data loss prevention (DLP) software. Such software does things like:

- MITMing output email to make sure you're not sending a spreadsheet full of social security numbers.

- The same but for posts to web forms.

- The same but for instant messengers.

...etc. Netskope is a big player in that space. Go read up on what all their stuff can do sometime. As an individual, a donor to the EFF, and a vocal advocate for user privacy, those things make me shudder. As someone responsible for making sure our employees didn't accidentally upload PHI to Facebook from a work computer, I gritted my teeth and accepted that they're a necessary evil.

There's no reminder that "your work laptop belongs to your employer" quite like working in healthtech. I'm willing to cut Microsoft some slack for offering those products to customers.

[lkjdsklf]

Every enterprise communication platform provides something similar.

It’s important to realize you don’t own any of the communication on a corporate owned device.