Zoom to Pay $85 Million to Settle Privacy Class Action

[jcgriff2]

Like lawyer Steve Lehto in the following video, I too had never heard of ZOOM until COVID-19, specifically a certain ZOOM meeting that went viral (information about the ZOOM meeting/break session, anyway) and involved New Yorker Magazine reporter/CNN Consultant Jeffrey Toobin in October 2020.

 

[xrobwx71]

Same here, until COVID. The school where my daughter goes was using it while they were out for COVID.

Of course, if they made enough cash to leverage, it's not a hit.

 

[britechguy]

I also don't know why anyone thought (or thinks, really) that Zoom was "a perfected technology" in any way, either then or now.

It went from zero to well over 60 at a pace almost unheard of, even in the tech world, and was pretty much beta software when this all began.

I also never presume anything that touches cyberspace is private. Period. End of Sentence. No matter how much any individual or entity insists they've come up with the magic complete privacy bullet in cyberspace, it has never, ever stayed that way.

 

[plodr]

I heard of Zoom but never thought I'd be using it. Just goes to show my powers of forecasting aren't good. I belong to 2 organizations that met by Zoom and then 1 switched to MS Teams so I had to figure that out. I'm just waiting until some organization decides I have to learn Google Meet.

I had to teach my husband how to use Zoom because he is on the Zoning Board for our city. His monthly Zoning Hearing Board meetings have been virtual for months. In fact, August 2021 is still virtual.

 

[xrobwx71]

I also don't know why anyone thought (or thinks, really) that Zoom was "a perfected technology" in any way, either then or now.

It went from zero to well over 60 at a pace almost unheard of, even in the tech world, and was pretty much beta software when this all began.

I also never presume anything that touches cyberspace is private. Period. End of Sentence. No matter how much any individual or entity insists they've come up with the magic complete privacy bullet in cyberspace, it has never, ever stayed that way.

Whether beta or not, they should have never said the connections were end-to-end encryption when it was not. End-to-end encryption has been around for a very long time.

I don't know if it's worth $85 million but it's irresponsible to make claims that simply are not true.

They basically knew the sharks are out there and instead of implementing end-to-end encryption, they lied and chummed the water.

 

[x BlueRobot]

I still don't understand how Zoom became so big so fast? There's other video conferencing software which has been around much longer. I did use Zoom at work before the pandemic, however, our preferred option was Microsoft Teams and before that it was Slack.

 

[Corday]

Started recommending MS Teams over a year ago when Zoom Security was brought to light.