[HN Gopher] Microsoft will now snitch on you at work like never ...
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       Microsoft will now snitch on you at work like never before
        
       Author : jensgk
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-11-10 20:13 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | aeternum wrote:
       | Lots of embellishment in this article, very little substance or
       | detail on what is actually being tracked.
        
         | loa_in_ wrote:
         | I think it's kind of the point, as we can't really quantify
         | "character". And that's phrasing straight from Microsoft.
         | 
         | > Yes, your company will soon have extra-special robots to
         | crawl along after you and observe your every "risky" action.
         | It's not enough to have increased visibility on browsers. You
         | must also have Machine Learning constantly alert for someone
         | revealing your lunch schedule.
         | 
         | > Microsoft offers a link to its Insider Risk Management page.
         | This enjoys some delicious phrasing: "Customers acknowledge
         | insights related to the individual user's behavior, character,
         | or performance materially related to employment can be
         | calculated by the administrator and made available to others in
         | the organization."
         | 
         | > Yes, even your character is being examined here.
        
         | tomnipotent wrote:
         | Agreed. This is trash opinion journalism that should be marked
         | an opinion piece but isn't. Zero actually useful information.
        
       | breakingcups wrote:
       | This is horribly dystopian.
       | 
       | My company is pretty heavily into the Microsoft stack and I'm
       | luckily a heavy voice in the decision making tree, this will
       | never _ever_ get enabled on our tenant. Here 's hoping we don't
       | unwittingly feed the ML machine behind this even if we never
       | enable this. I hate this new world.
        
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