We get security alerts when we set a channel to public. We also have 1 day retention for private chats. (Teams, not Slack, but same idea)
A 1 day retention? That seems suspiciously short and like it is intended to cover things up
Yes, it's absurd. But our industry put heavy incentive on R&D DLP.
Where I am, you need an admin to make a public channel; you cannot do it yourself.
A good number of them are. I don’t like it either. I make every new channel public.
So stupid. I could possibly see it in a giant corporation where security could be more of an issue, but at 800 people?
There’s plenty of legitimate security concerns. But that’s not the usual reason for private channels. They’re created by people with control issues. It’s just another gatekeeping mechanism and way of playing politics.