{"id":7416,"date":"2024-05-23T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2024-05-23T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:21:40","slug":"microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge Will Begin Blocking Screenshots on the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why do I feel this is more about preventing whistleblowing for corporate malfeasance? Especially as big tech is working on digital ID, vaccine passports, social credit scores… And screenshots were useful for getting things corrected within the company when I worked for AT&T, though they had a big scandal with customer’s personal information getting out that was most likely their overseas customer service operation they ended up bringing back to the states. Consequently, as an AT&T customer at the time, that foreign customer service operation was terrible, and one of the ways a number crunching executive screws up your company and its reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2336462\/microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Soon, you won’t be able to take a screenshot using Microsoft Edge for Business for your company says no.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

By Mark Hachman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you use the Microsoft Edge browser at work, your days of texting a screenshot of a web page to your spouse or coworker are nearly over. Microsoft is adding screenshot prevention controls to Edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all designed to prevent you from sharing screenshots with competitors, relatives, and journalists using Microsoft Edge for Business. \u201cScreenshot prevention policies will secure against data exfiltration in the browser by blocking the ability to take screenshots on pages labeled as sensitive or protected,\u201d Microsoft said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, IT managers at corporations will be able to tag web pages as protected, as defined in various Microsoft policy engines in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Intune Mobile Application Management and Microsoft Purview, Microsoft said. The screenshot prevention feature will be available to customers in the \u201ccoming months,\u201d Microsoft said. It\u2019s also unclear whether third-party tools will be somehow blocked from taking screenshots or recording video, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft will also roll out a way to force Edge for Business users to automatically update their browsers. The feature will enter a preview phase over the next few weeks, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Edge management service will enable IT admins to see which devices have Edge instances that are out of date and at risk,\u201d Microsoft said. \u201cIt will also provide mitigating controls, such as forcing a browser restart to install updates, enabling automatic browser updates or enabling enhanced security mode for added protections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter initiative to force updates seems smart, given that there\u2019s a real risk of zero-day attacks. Whether Microsoft is able to block screenshots being taken (as opposed to just snapped with a smartphone camera) remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do I feel this is more about preventing whistleblowing for corporate malfeasance? Especially as big tech is working on digital ID, vaccine passports, social credit scores… And screenshots were useful for getting things corrected within the company when I worked for AT&T, though they had a big scandal with customer’s personal information getting out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7419,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}