Hello Wilfred!
** 10.04.20 - 17:51, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:
I have no experience with the application myself, but Zoom has had a lot
of bad publicity lately. Basically they steal, use and sell every bit of
information they can get there hands on from your applience, with or
without your consent. So if you value your privacy don't use Zoom...
I found a report of that matter here:
https://protonmail.com/blog/zoom-privacy-issues/
It highlights the following paragraph in the Privacy Policy:
"In its privacy policy, under the entry "Does Zoom sell Personal Data?" the policy says, "Depends what you mean by `sell.'" To summarize Zoom's policy, they say they don't sell personal data for money to third parties, but it does share personal data with third parties for those companies' "business purposes." In its privacy policy, it gives the example that it
may pass your personal information to Google."
But who reads the Privacy Policy, to see that?
So they don't "sell", but they give it away. Yeah, sure I'll believe that
if I was born yesterday. They don't do that without some form of monetary advantage. Otherwise, what's the point? Free tickets to concerts? Free Amazon Prime accounts? Everything in business has a "value" and it must
be given a $ value. That's essentially a "sell".
"An article in Vice pointed out that the Zoom iOS app shared a
substantial amount of user data with Facebook, even if the user does not
have a Facebook account. However, two days after this story was published, Zoom removed the code that sent data to Facebook."
THAT is incredibly unethical in the first place. So, they only stopped it when they were outted.
Pathetic.
The whole Protonmail article is a big revelation on Zoom and their
practices. It even has tips for using it (if you must) better.
Happy Zooming - if you dare.
../|ug
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