Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings
Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in
Microsoft has built a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings.
“Bots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend,” wrote Microsoft product marketing manager Meera Ajam in a Monday post. “For example, after connecting a third-party service to a meeting, some users have found that its bot continues joining future meetings automatically.”
Ajam thinks bots butting into meetings that include discussion of sensitive matters is a potential security and privacy problem. Your correspondent has personal experience of this when transcription bots add themselves to meetings conducted under non-disclosure agreements.
Microsoft has therefore built tech that sees Teams require a human to check a bot’s ID in the “lobby” where guests wait before a meeting. If a human rates a bot as worthy of coming inside, it gets to join...
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