Is Slack good for actually getting your work done? That’s debatable. But the popular messaging platform — which now boasts more than 12 million daily active users — is definitely a promising medium for employers, regulatory agencies, the government, and even hackers seeking a trove of data about a company and its workers. Even your co-workers could find out more about you than you might expect.
The situation won't be much different for Microsoft Teams (which is primarily aimed at corporates who are paying for the service). If you want real chat privacy you'll need to go further off the beaten track to something like Riot which the French government adopted for foreign diplomats. Riot allows own end-to-end encryption to be set in rooms that even the server administrator or 3rd parties cannot see into (downside being if you lose your keys you cannot recover these messages).
See https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/slack-private-messages-privacy-law-enforcement-lawsuit and for Riot end-to-end encryption see https://about.riot.im/help#end-to-end-encryption
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#^Your Slack DMs aren’t as private as you think
How your employer (and others) can get your Slack messages.
source https://gadgeteer.co.za/your-slack-dms-arent-private-you-think-its-much-same-situation-corporate-e-mail
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