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Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Forbes – “Microsoft triggered a viral furorwhen it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption.
A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”
This applies to work-managed devices and doesn’t affect personal devices. And in certain regulated industries it just adds RCS archiving to existing SMS archiving. But employees in regular organizations view texting as different to emailing, especially given the expectations around end-to-end encryption. That’s no longer the case…”
See also TechSpot – “The rise of remote work introduced a degree of ambiguity to employees’ locations during conference calls on apps such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. An upcoming update for Teams threatens to eliminate any doubt by automatically informing employers when workers connect to office Wi-Fi. A Microsoft Teams update planned for January 2026 will automatically update users’ locations to indicate which building they are located in.
Although the feature will likely facilitate office coordination, it could also help bosses enforce stricter surveillance. According to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 488800, the update will be generally available on the Windows and macOS versions of Teams next month. Automatic location updates will be turned off by default, with Tenant administrators deciding whether to enable it and require other users to participate.
The feature informs administrators as soon as an employee connects to Wi-Fi in one of the company’s buildings. The conferencing functionality in Teams and similar apps has given employees the freedom to work from home or elsewhere, and potentially obscure whether they are in the office.
The extra distance from supervisors and coworkers helps some users improve their work-life balance and makes taking breaks easier. A study from earlier this year indicated that the most productive workers spend nearly two and a half hours resting during an 8-hour workday…”
