Security News > 2020 > December > As if Productivity Score wasn't creepy enough, Microsoft has patented tech for 'meeting quality monitoring devices'

It all sounds innocent enough until you read about the requirement for "Quality parameters" to be collected from "Meeting quality monitoring devices", which might give some pause for thought.

Productivity Score relies on metrics captured within Microsoft 365 to assess how productive a company and its workers are.

Meeting Insights would take things further by plugging data from a variety of devices into an algorithm in order to score the meeting.

While the idea of an in-person meeting may seem wonderfully quaint nowadays, the concepts detailed in the patent just might worry privacy campaigners who regard Productivity Score with concern.

"Talking to The Reg, one privacy campaigner who asked to remain anonymous said of tools such as Productivity Score and the Meeting Insight Computing System patent:"There is a simple dictum in privacy: you cannot lose data you don't have.

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