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posted by janrinok on Monday June 04 2018, @04:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the Your-Personal-Details-Belong-To-Us-Dept dept.

Yammer, the Facebook clone for enterprises, now demands users to provide their date of birth to be able to access the network. The fallacy with this is that while saying "Verify your age to continue" it says "Enter your birthday to verify that you meet the age requirement to use Yammer." which doesn't make sense for a social network designed for work environments where it is a given that users will be of adult age.

Microsoft have stated (Microsoft account required) that this is due to the pending merge of Yammer with Microsoft 365, however it also states that if the organization using Yammer does not have any users under the age of 16 then this verification step of sending each user's date of birth to Microsoft is not required. This is being seen as another step by Microsoft towards killing Yammer in favor of "Microsoft Teams" which so far has very little traction in the social networking space. This may be one of the final nails in the coffin for the ailing social network for corporations.


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 04 2018, @05:55PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday June 04 2018, @05:55PM (#688467) Journal

    Ah, but then you've violated the TOS by entering false information.

    And they already have your DOB anyway (harvested along with everything else they know), so they instantly know you are lying.

    But don't worry. They won't use it against you - not now anyway.
    They will sit on it till there is some reason for them or some government agency to throw you under a legal bus somewhere down the road.

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