We speak of a productivity service that can be used from devices with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and even from Apple Watch, as well as from any browser thanks to its complete Web version. An unofficial client is available to run the service on Linux, and cross-platform integration is undoubtedly outstanding along with its great adaptability.
And what does Slack offer to have grown as the foam in recent years? Since Slack can centralize all the communication of a company, offering chat rooms organized by themes and customizable, as well as public and private groups and direct messages between users. In addition, it automatically integrates features of important third-party services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub, Trello, and many more ...
Privacy has the days counted in Slack ...
However, Slack has a huge handicap and a lot of eye with him, because to date the customers paying for the service could access "compliance" exports that allowed managers to obtain a limited data record on the activity of their organization. . This, however, warned users that the aforementioned report had been requested.
The latest update of Slack opens the hand more seriously endangering the privacy of users, because as we tell Daily Mail from now on, administrators can access the data of your organization without there being any prior notice to the user, and you can even access direct messages sent in private conversations.
The new policies will become operational as of April 20, so keep an eye on what you discuss with your colleagues through Slack's messaging service, since it will be very easy for your bosses to get any conversation as long as they use the payment service.
Certainly discouraging that a service used by hundreds of organizations and thousands of users takes privacy so lightly, although you really have to understand that Slack lives from large organizations, and offer more management tools to premium services will be well received by its customers, or at least by the administrators ...
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