Microsoft Teams: New Policy Setting to Require Explicit Consent for Recording and Transcription in Teams 1:1 Calls

🚨 The Signal: Microsoft Teams now offers a policy to mandate explicit consent for recording and transcription in 1:1 calls. This enhances privacy and data governance by ensuring all participants agree before sensitive conversations are captured.

The Impact

All Teams users are affected, reducing the risk of unauthorised recording and transcription of sensitive conversations.

• End Users: Will be prompted for consent, preventing inadvertent data capture.
• Security Team: Gain a new control to enforce privacy and data handling policies.
• Compliance Officers: Can demonstrate stronger adherence to consent requirements for data collection.

The Action

1. Navigate to Teams admin center > Voice > Calling policies.
2. Select or create a new calling policy.
3. Locate the 'Recording & transcription' section.
4. Enable 'Require explicit consent for recording and transcription in 1:1 calls'.
5. Assign the policy to relevant users or groups.

Domain: Teams · Impact: medium · Workload: Teams