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Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by JW_00000 on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:13PM (#40684628)
If that's the case, why don't they sell Teams activity data to companies? I mean, after you're idle for 5 minutes, Teams detects this and changes your status to "idle". Following your reasoning, they should be selling this data already.
Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by ethbr1 on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:26PM (#40684759)
You mean Viva Insights? (formerly Workplace Analytics)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/insights

Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by JW_00000 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @05:08AM (#40688492)
Does this allow seeing how long an an employee was idle, or just whether they were in meetings?
Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by ethbr1 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:32PM (#40691693)
As of now, Microsoft seems to be boiling the frog slowly by marketing derived analytics. I believe they're less-than-specific on what goes into the mix.

E.g. "Employees that might be suffering burnout and need attention"

Which I can see for both PR optics and product reasons. If they retain the secret sauce and raw data, it makes it more difficult for others to go over-the-top and compete.

Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by pydry on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:27PM (#40684776)
Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by JW_00000 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @05:10AM (#40688501)
As far as I can tell, this does not allow the employer to see whether employees were idle or not. It does allow tracking of how much time they spent in meetings and how many chat messages they sent.
Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by neltnerb on Saturday June 15, 2024 @01:14PM (#40691069)
Why are you focused on idle time? You don't think a LLM can try to answer other questions?

Do you think Microsoft will prevent their paying customers (the companies) from querying, "What is the strongest legal reason to fire <person> based on the past three years of activity on this computer?"

Their sales team would be absolute fools not to point out how much easier it makes it for a manager to see historically whether someone is performing tasks as they are specified in some formal handbook.

The difference between doing that for reasonable reasons and doing that for post-hoc justification of targeted reprisals is in the mind of the manager and nowhere else. Maybe unspoken, but incredibly obvious.

"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him."