Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by heydenberk on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:50PM (#12678671)

I dread one day having to limit job searches to places that don't make me use my private social networking account to do business.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by spicyj on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:00PM (#12678730)

"Workplace" accounts are completely separate, with the exception of an optional link to your personal account to make it easier to log in. To my knowledge, no other data is shared. Your employer owns the data, not Facebook.

See https://workplace.fb.com/trust/.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by heydenberk on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:03PM (#12678751)

Sorry you're being downvoted. This is useful information that allays some of my concerns. Thanks.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by ams6110 on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:54PM (#12679071)

> no other data is shared

Maybe not now. But they have it. And correlating it would be trivial.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by eric_h on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:39PM (#12679967)

Will they support generic 2factor auth apps or will I have to use a separate Facebook workplace app to generate auth codes for logging in?

I'm already annoyed that I get my two factor codes from two different apps (one for Facebook, one for everything else), I'd be extra annoyed if it had to be three.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by spicyj on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:48PM (#12680023)

You can actually use any TOTP app with Facebook already, though the setting is very buried:

https://www.facebook.com/help/358336074294704

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by eric_h on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:35PM (#12688292)

Holy shit! Thank you very much, I had no idea.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by kikkak on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:12PM (#12678808)

I dream of the day where I'm not followed around by my data exhaust. It's just wishful thinking.

I feel that the marginal benefit of social media systems has peaked. It's begun to make interactions less human and less personal; the gain over using email is negligible. I don't need to see your picture, I just want to know when I'll have VPN access.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by waspleg on Monday October 10, 2016 @07:43PM (#12680712)

I'd wager a large portion of the readers of this site are too young to know what it as like to not have your entire life under 24/7 surveillance.

I hope the back lash is enormous. Security = Privacy = Democracy; you can't have one without the others.

Chilling effects brought on by "you should be careful what you say (and to whom)" is the death of freedom of speech, and with it "free" society.

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by lazzlazzlazz on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:12PM (#12678812)

The Workplace account exists completely separately of your private Facebook account. Can you point to specific evidence that suggests they're the same/linked or do you just "feel" like they would be?

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Re:Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social net... by meira on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:56PM (#12679727)

Understanding software systems, there are any evidences that says it's separated? They use data from instagram and whatsapp, which they still call different companies. What would make us believe they aren't going to exploit it the same way they already do?

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