Zoom is being looked at by New York AG for privacy practices

Seems like they're being unfairly picked on, but it makes sense that they're under the spotlight. They're a massive a player at the moment. As a long time user, I do wish them the best, but it's good to know that if they're doing things right.

And as the old saw goes: "With great power... "

I have just reported them to the data protection officer in my member state[1]. A list of contact addresses for individual EU countries can be found here: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/unsere-rolle-als-aufs...

[1] citing a list of 10 links from here https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... including this story

Do Zoom have any offices or real presence in the EU?

Will be interesting to see how EU and US deal with similar infringments.

So, the entire nation uses whatsapp and gmail, the services made by the biggest data collectors on earth, known to have taken part of the PRIMS program, that send record of said data to private 3rd party for analysis, to have people inside abusing the access to that data, and they focus on zoom ?

I mean, it's good that people suddenly care about privacy, but it's like raising awareness on acne while Covid19 is out there.

"If you're on a Zoom call where the presenter is sharing their screen, Zoom with snitch on you if you dare interact with another app on your computer while that's going on. They call this "Attention Tracking"."

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1244750301975855104

zoom's real problem right now is zoombombing. We re attending a quite big virtual conference and bombing has become a huge issues in parallel sessions.