Google Meet now shares detailed bandwidth information with your employer

The latest update to Google Meet is a new feature that allows Google Workspace admins to see staff bandwidth during a call.

The updated “Meet Quality Tool”will display information about incoming and outgoing bandwidth, comparing the user’s “estimated available bandwidth”with the bandwidth required by Google Meet for each moment of the call. Google Meet used to log averages for each person over the duration of a call, but now the new tool shows each person’s throughput in a second-by-second line chart. Google says, “We hope that with this detailed information, administrators can easily troubleshoot or improve call quality for their users.”

The full list of everything that Google Meet logs and shares with your employer or school is very long. It includes network statistics such as jitter, packet loss, congestion, and ping time, as well as whether you were using a wired, Wi-Fi, or cellular connection, microphone and speaker levels, CPU and FPS usage, and any moderation action. There is also a Google Meet Audit Log, which gives Workspace administrators access to a log of each meeting, including the names and descriptions of each meeting and all attendees.

Let’s assume that everything you do in your Workspace account is logged and saved. It’s a little creepy. But your school or employer pays for all this, so he gets all the data.

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