This is the best summary I could come up with:

But the popular messaging platform — which boasted more than 12 million daily active users as of last year — 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.

“Clearly, the adage of ‘Don’t write anything in an email that you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the Wall Street Journal’ applies to your use of Slack too,” Harris told Recode in March of this year.

Companies may need to consistently preserve electronic communications for review by regulatory agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulation Authority.

In its most recent transparency report (which covers 2020), Slack says it received 38 requests from US government entities for both content and metadata, including through search warrants, subpoenas, and court orders.

Keep in mind, those numbers are pretty small; the company said in its last earnings report that it had more than 150,000 organizations paying for its service, and customers can also use the platform for free.

In 2019, Slack granted one request for non-content, user data stored in the US from an unnamed foreign government as part of following a mutual legal assistance treaty.

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That really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that’s used enterprise software. There are all sorts of industries where auditable communications are legally required and of course it’s stored for a long time and of course it’s all exportable. Not having the ability to do that is a legal dealbreaker for a good chunk of the bigger companies.

You shouldn’t expect any privacy on the company’s premises or any of their computer systems. It’s theirs, not yours, you’re a guest and you should assume everything is recorded.

I always assumed anything I put in slack could be read by the overlords.

Who the fuck is this stupid? And they wasted time writing an article?

It’s a fucking enterprise communications tool. Of fucking course it’s monitored.

This article is outdated. The status page has been removed. As well as the blog post that outlines advanced analytics. I stopped reading at that point.

I would like to know who’s stupid enough to think the service would be private. Mostly so I can avoid them.

My employer literally notifies employees regularly that slack messages aren’t private.

We’ve used Slack DMs to fire someone

I’m still looking for an open-source, self-hostable, E2EE alternative to Slack. My last attempt to find something basically only brought up Matrix: feddit.de/post/8502516 (Does Jerboa have a way to copy the correct !syntax of a post?)

‘Your [literally everything connected to the internet] is not as private as you think.’

Fixed that for them.