Teams browser version demands location access to join meetings
Users report that the Teams web app requests location permissions that appear unnecessary for basic meeting functionality, with no option to proceed without granting them. This is a privacy overreach pattern increasingly common in enterprise web apps. Limited third-party remediation is possible given Microsoft controls the web client.
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