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Allow disabling "away" status, for privacy reasons
The fact that I'm working on my pc or not is a privacy-critical information. Thus, there should be an option to disable this auto-detection and force the status to online. (or online/busy autodetecti...
Remember, the reason for it is not to spy on you, it's to let others know that if they send you a message, whether or not there's a chance that you will answer it.
But as you start using it, you start to realize that away doesn't mean away. It just means that you haven't touched your computer lately. You can still be very legitimately working on something or even on a phone call where you don't touch the computer.
If you don't want to be nice to others, just set status to appear away and never to reset.
But as you start using it, you start to realize that away doesn't mean away. It just means that you haven't touched your computer lately. You can still be very legitimately working on something or even on a phone call where you don't touch the computer.
If you don't want to be nice to others, just set status to appear away and never to reset.
Fact is: spying is possible. And I think this is not capable with European laws, at least not as long there is no option to disable it
- Well, put it on offline then and never change it.
