On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:34, Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote: > > Kind of a rant, but more making a point. > > Teams via browser means you have to have an M/S account because > your data is in someone else's data center (isn't that a Cloud? > ;-) ). Or to put this another way, someone has to have an account > so that you can get access via Teams in my experience.
You don't have to have an MS account to be a guest at a Teams meeting. To be sure I just now tried this myself using Firefox, and joined a Teams meeting I hosted using my work Teams account. It worked fine. The host may have rules that prohibit you from joining anonymously, and as always Microsft has all kinds of dark patterns to "encourage" you to hand over as much information as they can extract from you, but basically it works. None of these services MS Teams, Google Meets, Zoom, or any of the second tier ones offer anonymity or true end-to-end encryption. All of them will collect as much personal data about you as they possibly can. If you want a good degree of privacy on an audio/video call, use Signal. For that matter use Signal anyway. Yes you have to install an app, but it's open source and run by a charitable foundation rather than a for-profit company. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
