Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA

coondoggie writes "Microsoft's Lync communications platform gathers enough readily analyzable data to let corporations spy on their employees like the NSA can on U.S. citizens, and it's based on the same type of information — call details. At Microsoft's Lync 2014 conference, software developer Event Zero detailed just how easy it would be, for instance, to figure out who is dating whom within the company and pinpoint people looking for another job."

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Can see how own network, messaging is being used!?

[raymorris]

I'm shocked and amazed. A company running their own messaging server on their own network can see how it's being used?!
Next you'll tell me that my company's email administrator can see email I send at work, through the server they administer.

Re:lots of products already do this

[BitZtream]

ALL PBX type software does this.

Anyone who wants to be able to bill internally HAS to keep this metadata to do internal billing.

Its also something that has been collected for the entire 30 years I've dealt with phone systems, and its not like it was new when I first started in telephony.

You're pretty fucking stupid if this is news to you.