Security News > 2020 > November > Privacy campaigner flags concerns about Microsoft's creepy Productivity Score

Microsoft's Productivity Score has put in a public appearance in Microsoft 365 and attracted the ire of privacy campaigners and activists.

Melissa Grant, director of product marketing for Microsoft 365, told us that Microsoft had been asked if it was possible to use the tool to check, for example, that everyone was online and working by 8 but added: "We're not in the business of monitoring employees."

Christl's concerns are not limited to the Productivity Score dashboard itself, but also regarding what is going on behind the scenes in the form of the Microsoft Graph.

For its part, Microsoft has continued to insist that Productivity Score is not a stick with which to bash employees.

We put Christl's concerns to Microsoft and asked the company if its good intentions extended to the APIs exposed by the Microsoft Graph.

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