On march 29 it clarified its privacy policy in a blog post addressing some of the issues data protection experts had with it and stating clearly no data. Widespread criticism has stung zoom. Zoom shared some analytics data with facebook sparking a class action lawsuit.
Here s a look at the privacy concerns that have cropped up around zoom in recent weeks. By looking through its privacy policy and some of its support documents you quickly discover that zoom shares the copious amounts. However new users should be aware of the company s privacy practices.
Zoom s big selling point is its near frictionless video calls. Zoom has seen a flood of new users as the covid 19 outbreak forces more and more employees to transition to working from home. A growing number of concerns have been raised in recent weeks just as many consumers turn to zoom to.
Zoom risks becoming the victim of its own success as it faces a privacy and security backlash. Alas its answers are not exactly reassuring. Zoom s privacy page addresses some questions a potential user might have.
And then there s the issue of what zoom does with your personal data. Zoom bombings in which hackers enter chat rooms to drop racist language and violent threats persist. Zoom has had some glaring problems of privacy and security.
Several privacy experts some working for consumer reports pored over zoom s privacy policy and found that it apparently gave zoom the right to use zoom users personal data and to share it with.
