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danvc | 2 months ago
Q:Isn’t my employer going to see me logging in to some random service with my work account? Will the corporate Microsoft identity provider even have you in the allowlist?
- It's like having your accounts synced into Apple Mail (or some other Google app). The difference is that it organizes your contacts and keep your data stored in the cloud;
Q: I can just connect with everyone I know from work on LinkedIn
- That's for sure, but, the idea here is more a CRM than a social network;
Q: I avoid doing personal business on my work machine so when I am terminated I don’t lose anything
- But again, the idea here is to use in many different situations. For instance: you had an old domain but instead of using the Apple Mail, you used a service that store it for you in the cloud. So, you can still have access to it because the data belongs to you... but after a while you don't have the domain anymore.
Example C: anything I know I want to keep long term I save in some way that the company can’t keep
- And this is one example of how the platform is used for.
Example D: I don’t actually want to engage in Example C because it violates company policy and nothing I do at work is worth getting sued over. - The problem doesn't happen only to company emails... that was my situation with stuffs that I saved by mistake...
Ancapistani|2 months ago
It's not the same, though - it's a non-standard service with the specific, stated purpose of data exfiltration.
The issue here isn't so much the fact that it keeps contacts available after the account is disabled; it's that it's the stated intent.
To put it another way - if I wanted this, why wouldn't I just sync my email via Thunderbird on a personal device?
> That's for sure, but, the idea here is more a CRM than a social network
I have something similar for myself, but it's just iCloud Contacts with lists and tags.
> The problem doesn't happen only to company emails...
I think this is your core issue - messaging. While I don't know if the problem you're trying to solve is one other people have, I do know that the value proposition of "you may lose your company email" is... well, it's clearly going to be a violation of contract at minimum for most employees, and potentially even a criminal act.