Microsoft's chilling new update may frighten everyone who thinks they're funny
The company explains: "Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information."
So many qualitative words there. One person's inappropriate is another person's amusing. One person's threatening language can be another person's joke that they accidentally sent on a Reply All email.
Please, I don't disrespect the need for vigilance and self-awareness. Nor do I misunderstand the need for policies and rules.
But imagine if it'll now take just one hour for the corporate gods to descend upon you and intone: "You said what? To whom?"
Won't it exacerbate employees' already hearty paranoia?
Microsoft's chilling new update may frighten everyone who thinks they're funny
It was always going to come to something like this. But now, everyone at work may be even more concerned about what they write and say.
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