That really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that’s used enterprise software. There are all sorts of industries where auditable communications are legally required and of course it’s stored for a long time and of course it’s all exportable. Not having the ability to do that is a legal dealbreaker for a good chunk of the bigger companies.
You shouldn’t expect any privacy on the company’s premises or any of their computer systems. It’s theirs, not yours, you’re a guest and you should assume everything is recorded.
Though slack does require legal justification iirc for them to give private chat records to the company.
I realized this when I went to make channel MyChannel on my student orgs slack, but couldn’t bc the name was already in use. But I couldn’t find said channel, and my account was now the primary owner of the workspace. So I read through some of their documentation, and yeah… it’s made with some concept of privacy for employees.
That really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that’s used enterprise software. There are all sorts of industries where auditable communications are legally required and of course it’s stored for a long time and of course it’s all exportable. Not having the ability to do that is a legal dealbreaker for a good chunk of the bigger companies.
You shouldn’t expect any privacy on the company’s premises or any of their computer systems. It’s theirs, not yours, you’re a guest and you should assume everything is recorded.
Though slack does require legal justification iirc for them to give private chat records to the company.
I realized this when I went to make channel MyChannel on my student orgs slack, but couldn’t bc the name was already in use. But I couldn’t find said channel, and my account was now the primary owner of the workspace. So I read through some of their documentation, and yeah… it’s made with some concept of privacy for employees.
Only if you’re on the free plan.
Enterprise plan? Enterprise audit logs. You can see anything and everything whenever you want if you’ve got high enough access levels.