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Kevin Okemwa

Microsoft's RTO mandate suspiciously aligns with Teams' controversial Wi-Fi location tracking — coincidence or micromanaging?

This photo illustration shows the app Teams from the US company Microsoft displayed on a cell phone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 1, 2024.

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In October, I reported on a new and controversial feature shipping to Microsoft Teams, which automatically updates a user's location when they connect their device to an office Wi-Fi network. At the time, Microsoft described the feature, tagged 488800 in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, as follows: "When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in."

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