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Microsoft, Google Introduce Controversial Employee Monitoring Features
11/30/2025
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- Microsoft announced a Teams feature that notifies employers when employees are off work.
- Google announced an Android update allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices, despite end-to-end encryption.
- The change applies only to work devices and adds RCS archiving to existing SMS archiving in regulated industries.
- Employees may feel misled because texting was viewed as more private than emailing.
