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Microsoft Teams Shares Excessive Employee Data with Employers

Employees are concerned that Microsoft Teams surfaces more behavioral and activity data to employers than users realize or consent to. A structural platform-wide privacy concern. Discussion-level signal with no specific actionable detail.

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