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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by m463 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:00PM (#25201022)
f*ck that.

block as much as you can.

delve.office.com and I think it was vortex.data.microsoft.com

umatrix lets you block lots of other parts. Microsoft sites are a cesspool of tracking and cross-tracking.

I wish there was a comprehensive list.

I also wonder how much CCPA and other laws could help with these issues.

All privacy policies say you are entitled to make a privacy request, but none of them provides guidance or a form.

It would be nice to have CCPA advice or even form letters.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by benhurmarcel on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:32PM (#25201403)
In the kind of company that uses that, you also don't get to install anything you want on your computer.

For example I can only log into my company's online office suite from the company-provided Chrome installation, and no addon can be installed unless whitelisted by IT.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by acuozzo on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:20PM (#25201999)
Then a DNS Sinkhole it is! Pi-hole on the Raspberry Pi 0W is tiny.
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by leesalminen on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:51PM (#25202322)
I’d imagine the company owned laptop doesn’t let you set custom DNS servers.
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by mpfundstein on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:53AM (#25207902)
what about filtering outnthose requests on the router?
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by benhurmarcel on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:20AM (#25208088)
You don't have access to the company's router obviously.

And you're usually not working from home in that case, and if you are you're connected to the company's VPN.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by layoutIfNeeded on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:53PM (#25202899)
That won’t work on the company VPN I’m afraid.
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by GekkePrutser on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:02PM (#25201769)
Yeah since working from home I've seen a LOT of chatter blocked by my pihole when the VPN is off. Also browser.pipe.aria.microsoft.com, telemetry.microsoft.com, trafficmanager.net, hockeyapp.net, self.events.data.microsoft.com . And this is with uBlock origin also adding up blocked stuff constantly (so that's not even reaching pihole).

Some of them (like trafficmanager.net) do seem needed for proper operation but most aren't.

Even when I'm just working locally on a document... I really don't like this either. Nor do I like those 'helpful' O365 reports about my habits and how to spend my time.

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