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Slack privacy furore: Company updates legals, says no customer data used to train genAI.

Communicating RAG/ML is hard. Engineering, legal and communications need to sit down and thrash this out in a growing number of companies.

Edward Targett May 20, 2024

Slack is scraping your messages and files to develop AI by default

Slack is scraping your messages and files to develop AI by default

"To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack..."

The Stack May 17, 2024

A requiem for Workplace by Facebook: The CIO’s leftfield choice

"It became a Fortune 500-heavy, frontline-friendly business by accident. We thought only tech companies would use Workplace, until Clay Johnson, back then CIO of Walmart, told us he wanted Workplace for 100% of their employees"

Edward Targett May 15, 2024

Feds to businesses: Preservation rules don't vanish with "ephemeral" messages

Feds to businesses: Preservation rules don't vanish with "ephemeral" messages

"This preservation responsibility applies to new methods of collaboration and information sharing tools, even including tools that allow for messages to disappear via ephemeral messaging capabilities"

Joe Fay January 29, 2024