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Just wait for it to come back with less fanfare - removing usernames from a 10 person company isnt really anonymizing anything - which everyone working for a sm

• dustinmoris 6y ago
  Absolutely. This is not a feature which any employee ever wished to have. This is aimed 100% at managers and people who decide on which products the company should buy and no better way to persuade them by giving them a surveillance tool on their employees. It will come back in pieces.
• commandlinefan 6y ago
  Yeah, you're kidding yourself if you think that this level of surveillance is possible, but that they won't implement it due to negative feedback or any other kind of pressure. If this can be done, it will be done, and nothing will get in its way. At this point, we might all be better off adopting the attitude: I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have outrun the other guy. I don't like it either, but I don't see much of an alternative.
  • skohan 6y ago
    We probably have to acknowledge that if you are using Windows at all, MS probably has this kind of detailed data about everything you do on your computer. This has been possible for a long time, the only boundary which was being tested here was the idea of selling this data to your employer.