How about the fact that if you don't pay for a subscription they hold on to your lab's private communications forever. You cannot delete them (AFAIK). Will they sell them someday? Mine them for data? Hold you ransom? I use slack despite this. :(
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Replying to @bradpwyble @TimKietzmann
the subscription model is one of the few things to complain about. The functionality is near perfect for my purposes though.
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Replying to @annemscheel @TimKietzmann
Right, but what I mean is that if you DON'T subscribe, then the company holds onto your data. I hadn't worried about that until recently, but it's a pretty big privacy concern. If they go under, all that data will be sold to the highest bidder.
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There should be a "nuke my files" button.
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Also wort planning ahead, we got used to Slack and started using is with students. Then DGPR and privacy bomb hit and now we’re having to change. Worth considering how much social pressure there is in a lab to join the chat and pick something responsibly, based on that.
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Pardon me but what is DGPR?
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My question is: why did it's introduction force people to move away from slack? Or did I misunderstand the tweet above?
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The free Slack is not compliant. They collect a lot more than just chats. Location and ip address. And they are willing to use & share. My advice to our group is to imagine that you are chatting in a coffee shop and using their wifi to share stuff so adjust behaviour accordingly.
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Replying to @PatersonHelena @TimKietzmann and
All this was rather academic until they showed that they use that data in December, now it is worth taking precautions, esp if students are involved.https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mashable.com/article/slack-banning-users-from-iran-cuba-sanctioned-countries.amp …
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Discord is like Slack but free. Looks better too.
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