This one proclaims: "Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management -- New ML detectors."
Yes, your company will soon have extra-special robots to crawl along after you and observe your every "risky" action. It's not enough to have increased visibility on browsers. You must also have Machine Learning constantly alert for someone revealing your lunch schedule.
Microsoft offers a link to its Insider Risk Management page. This enjoys some delicious phrasing: "Customers acknowledge insights related to the individual user's behavior, character, or performance materially related to employment can be calculated by the administrator and made available to others in the organization."
Yes, even your character is being examined here.
In one sense, this is all understandable. The easier it gets for employees to behave in even marginally nefarious ways, the more there has to be security to prevent them from doing it.
The more that cyber weaknesses exist, the more someone might want to exploit them.
Ultimately, of course, it's another small representation of the complete lack of trust among humans -- and especially between management and employees. Technology, because of its immediacy and ubiquity, has exacerbated that.
The more companies descend spy software upon their employees -- especially employees working from home -- the less trust can exist between those who work and those who manage.
The more companies want to follow every single moment of their employees' working lives -- and even non-working lives -- the less it feels like we're all in this together.
There's a certain symbolism, of course, in Microsoft 365 following you around 365 days a year.