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There are industries where you have no expectation of privacy at work because all comms are required to be monitored and stored due to the law. So this new feat

• tyingq 8y ago
  Sure but being that it's a distinct change some sort of indicator in the UI seems reasonable.
  • avip 8y ago
    This change does not affect the normal user at all.
• gregoriol 8y ago
  Matrix allows encryption with only access by people in the room, and even since they joined.
  • geofft 8y ago
    Right, and Matrix cannot be legally used by such customers. (I was the person who set up Slack compliance logging at my previous employer, which was SEC- and FINRA-regulated, moving from internal IRC. We weren't legally allowed to use even the chat window on the side of Google Docs etc.) If the privacy of your work chats is important to you, there are lots of other jobs you can take. And of course nothing prohibited private chats between employees as long as they were not about work. I absolutely used Signal with friends who happened to be coworkers, but it was for things like planning our next D&D session and not planning out next trade.
• numbsafari 8y ago
  Even if it isn't the law, most companies make you sign away your ownership of any and all communications made using company provided systems or materials as part of the employment contract. Be sure to read your employment agreement. And never, ever, use work related systems for anything personal or private or inappropriate. "NSFW" means something. Heck, apply this level of thinking to any system you don't own or control. Unless privacy is baked into the protocol, you have none. Period.