New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service
As the videoconferencing platform's popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.
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@cradvocacy
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“Zoom should update their terms to ensure that data collected during meetings from any participant or host is explicitly excluded from any advertising or marketing use...” says CR's @JustinBrookman. See our tips for enhancing your privacy on Zoom: https://www.consumerreports.org/…
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@vice
@vice
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A Zoom user filed a class action lawsuit against the company for sending data to Facebook, arguing that Zoom violated California's new data protection law. https://www.vice.com/...
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@random_walker
Arvind Narayanan
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Zoom is also a privacy disaster https://blogs.harvard.edu/... The creepiest feature is attention tracking. If it's on, it reports to the host if a user clicks away from the Zoom window for 30 seconds. As we all know, your boss constantly watching your screen is a great way to wor…
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@ow
@ow
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Zoom is such a dodgy/misleading company across the board and using it should be reconsidered 🙅♀️ https://theintercept.com/...
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@profcarroll
@profcarroll
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Zoom: “We take privacy seriously.” NY AG: “We too take privacy seriously.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@fbiboston
FBI Boston
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FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During COVID-19 Pandemic: As large numbers of people turn to video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms to stay connected in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, reports of VTC hijacking are emerging ... https://www.fbi.gov/...
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@joshgerstein
Josh Gerstein
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‘Without end-to-end encryption, Zoom has the technical ability to spy on private video meetings and could be compelled to hand over recordings of meetings to governments or law enforcement in response to legal requests.’ https://twitter.com/...
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@jackyan
@jackyan
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If you care about privacy, you had better read this about Zoom. They'll harvest your calls. http://blogs.harvard.edu/...
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@rontkim
Ron T. Kim
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Instead of reinforcing the dominance of Zoom, try a @platformcoop for free video conferencing: Collective Tools. https://meet.collective.tools/ https://twitter.com/...
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@mltellado
Marta L. Tellado
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Great reporting by @allenstjohn who wrote about the privacy concerns of using Zoom. Thanks, Doc Searls @dsearls for elevating this issue & calling @consumerreports “the greatest moral conscience in the history of business” https://www.consumerreports.org/ ...
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@firstpost
@firstpost
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The NY attorney-general's office is “concerned that #Zoom's existing security practices might not be sufficient to adapt to the recent and sudden surge in both the volume and sensitivity of data being passed through its network” | via @nytimes https://www.firstpost.com/...
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@nytimesbusiness
@nytimesbusiness
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Over the last few weeks, internet trolls have exploited a Zoom screen-sharing feature to hijack meetings. Now the videoconferencing app is under scrutiny by the office of New York's attorney general for its data privacy and security practices. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@nytimestech
@nytimestech
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“There is so much we simply don't know about Zoom's privacy practices,” said executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a nonprofit group in Boston. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@patrickmoorhead
Patrick Moorhead
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As I've mentioned 3-5 times...... https://twitter.com/...
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@karlovic2202
@karlovic2202
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Everybody using Zoom these days (so basically everybody) should be careful what they say or show, because Zoom reserves the right to monetize everything it learns about your behavior from your video conferences. http://blogs.harvard.edu/...
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@dhh
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If you're still using Zoom, you should really read Doc Searls excellent summary of the litany of privacy issues still present, as well as the detailed breakdown of their terrible privacy policy. https://blogs.harvard.edu/...
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@trevortimm
Trevor Timm
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Zoom says all over the place—on its app, website, security white paper—that its video calls are “end-to-end encrypted,” but when @theintercept asked them about it they said: “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption for Zoom video meetings.” https://theintercept.com…
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@stshank
Stephen Shankland
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End to middle ≠ end to end. By Zoom's definition, Gmail could be E2E encrypted even though it's sitting on a Google server. That lets Google do useful things (search, spam filtering), but it means Google doesn't get to brag email is E2E encrypted. https://twitter.com/...
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@yuanfenyang
Yuan Yang
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The UK: We really shouldn't give our sensitive data to Huawei if we can't guarantee the integrity of its security Also the UK: We should give it all to Zoom instead Also see: https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@jilliancyork
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I was willing to write off the other stuff about Zoom, but not this. I'll be looking for a better solution for anything personal. https://theintercept.com/...