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Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google

Enlarge / Technical preview of Zoom’s end-to-end encryption, made available months after Focus was caught lying to users about how it encrypts video calls. (credit: Zoom ) Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent […]

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Zoombombing countermeasures are ineffective in the vast majority of cases

Enlarge As the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools, colleges, and businesses to limit in-person meetings, the world quickly adopted video conferencing from services such as Zoom and Google Meet. That, in turn, gave way to “zoombombing,” the term for when Internet trolls join online meetings with the goal of disrupting them and harassing their participants. Meeting […]