Motherboard also reported that Zoom had updated its iOS app so the app would stop sending certain data to Facebook. Courtesy of Facebook's Graph API, Zoom was telling Facebook whenever you opened the Zoom app, what phone or device you were using, and your phone carrier, location and a unique But what to do when Zoom gets caught sending some of your analytics data to Facebook - whether or not you even have a Facebook account?Īn analysis by Vice's Motherboard found the iOS version of the Zoom app doing exactly that. To log in to other sites and software unless you want Facebook to have data on what you're doing. Zoom even shared information with Facebookīy now, you're used to hearing it from the privacy-minded: Don't use Participants can also see when a meeting is being recorded.

Administrators can limit the recording's accessibility to only certain preapproved IP addresses, even if the recording has already been shared. Zoom does allow a narrowing of the audience here, however. Yikes.Īs Mashable's Jack Morse put it, 'What that suggests, but doesn't clarify, is that for non-webinar/standard meetings, your person-to-person chat messages would be later sent to your boss after a call recorded to the cloud.' If the feature is enabled on the account, a host can record the meeting along with its text transcription and a text file of any active chats in that meeting, and save it to the cloud where it can later be accessed by other authorized users at your company, including people who may have never attended the meeting in question. Zoom's cloud recording feature might share meeting video with people outside the callįor paid subscribers, Zoom's cloud recording feature can either be a life-saver or a catastrophic faux pas waiting to happen.

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