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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

by Charlie Box

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

As quarantined millions gather virtually on conferencing platforms, the best of those, Zoom, is doing very well. Hats off. But Zoom is also—correctly—taking a lot of heat for its privacy policy, wh…

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    I was reading this today also, glad to be informed. And stumbled another article that was on a newsletter;

    "Zoom is sending data to Facebook even if users don't have FB accounts, Vice reports."

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account

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      This happens with every application that uses the Facebook SDK for iOS. Zoom removed it from their application yesterday.

      https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebook-sdk-in-ios-client/

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