So will they get fined more than Snapchat for lying about ephemeral messaging or will this be the usual American "slap on the wrist" thing we usually see to protect the investors?
>"Today, the Federal Trade Commission has voted to propose a settlement with Zoom that follows an unfortunate FTC formula," FTC Democratic Commissioner Rohit Chopra said. "The settlement provides no help for affected users. It does nothing for small businesses that relied on Zoom's data protection claims. And it does not require Zoom to pay a dime. The Commission must change course."
Under the settlement, "Zoom is not required to offer redress, refunds, or even notice to its customers that material claims regarding the security of its services were false," Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said. "This failure of the proposed settlement does a disservice to Zoom's customers, and substantially limits the deterrence value of the case."
” The European Commission has told its staff to switch to the encrypted Signal messaging app in a move that’s designed to increase the security of its communications.”
This was February 2020, has something changed?
This level of planning is like the US govt outlawing all guns tomorrow, it just isn't going to happen any time soon since not only are gun-owners usually not the type to want to give up a gun, the prevalence of gun ownership is so massive that it would take equally massive resources to run a completely successful confiscation program.
You mean like what happened with PRISM ?
They don't even need to tell their customers that they lied [2]
1: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1923167zoom... 2: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...