Slack Vs Microsoft Teams — Which App Is Better For Your Privacy & Security? [Mozilla Foundation]

Squire1039 , 10 months ago

Slack makes it easy for employers to read your private messages, but Microsoft Teams takes employee surveillance to the next level. Teams offers employers easy access to stats about what you’re doing on the platform via its user activity reports dashboard. The dashboard shows how much time you spend messaging others, participating in calls and even how much you’re screen-sharing. Invasive!

You should be wary of both Slack and Microsoft Teams but Teams is teeming with privacy worries for the average employee. Work wisely.

ggnoredo , 10 months ago

None, use zulip or matrix

soren446 , 10 months ago

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RagingRobot , 10 months ago

Yeah this article is kind of pointless for me since I have no say in the matter

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago

Even if your organization is ok with it, other companies might not be. Eventually you’ll have to communicate with people from other companies, which means you can’t avoid Teams forever.

JackGreenEarth , 10 months ago

You can email other companies. Chat tools are only used internally anyway.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago

For the most part, that’s true. However, there are also some situations when I’ve had to set up a new team that includes members from outside the company. We use those teams for messages, announcement posts and meetings. Normally, those teams involve universities, contractors or consultants.

Aux , 10 months ago

Nope. Chat and meeting tools are used extensively in cross company environments.

Olap , 10 months ago

Teams lets you federate with other teams’ instances

key , 10 months ago

I use zulip at work. Million times better.