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Microsoft Teams is getting a controversial location tracking feature that users may hate (www.neowin.net)
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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 23 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I look forward to everyone being shown as located in the major city where our VPN is listed instead of where we actually are. That's how it works for browsers and other location based functionality now.

[–] harmony@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 hours ago

Even without VPN, IP-based location has always shown me in all sorts of random places, sometimes even in the opposite end of my country. Guess it's an ISP thing.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

This is using your office network/wifi SSID to set your location status in Teams. It’s not sharing your location when you’re nothing the office.

Also, it’s opt-in.