Our team loves HipChat, and they will probably end up feeling the opposite because of this. Please provide a way for us not to activate that "feature".
Companies are basically required by law to store all the communications of their employees, it has nothing to do with trust. I forget the entire reason, but basically Bill Clinton cut some crazy deal with radical feminists in order to get reelected whereby he signed some sexual harassment law that basically required employers to monitor all employee communications. Jeffrey Rosen has a book about it called The Unwanted Gaze.
I had no idea that radical feminists, or indeed feminists in general, had such immense power that they could affect an election where the incumbent won by 9%.