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Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”

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lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

That doesn’t at all match the documentation.

The organization will configure a list of Wi-Fi SSIDs. When your device connects to one of those, the Teams location would be updated to “in the office”.

That’s it. No complex triangulation, no pinpoint locating. Just “are you connected to the office network or not”.

Also, if you don’t want to be tracked in this way, just don’t participate. If your organization sets a policy to opt you in automatically, click the option to opt out. If they give the offer to opt in, just don’t.

I know it’s hip to hate on Microsoft, but we should at least discuss things based on the truth, not wild assumptions and misinformation.

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lasta@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thanks for the clarification. I wrongly assumed Microsoft was using Wi-Fi positioning systems (which is used for geolocation, just not in this particular case) instead of reading their documentation.

I’ll update the comment.

I also don’t think most workplaces are going to punish you for opting out of this feature even if organizational policy requires it to be enabled.

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