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reports assert that Zoom is “leaking peoples’   rather  included information  about  devices
                                             email addresses and photos to strangers,” as   such as the mobile OS type and version, the
                                             Motherboard put it.                  device time zone, device OS, device model and
                                                                                  carrier, screen size, processor cores, and disk
                                               The latter of those claims has already   space.”
                                             resulted in a pair of lawsuits being filed against
                                             Zoom in California. The plaintiffs in those   As  is  apparently  obligatory  when
                                             complaints allege that Zoom shared personally   companies address privacy issues related to
                                             identifiable information, including users’ device   their products and services, Yuan added that
                                             models, locations, phone carriers and other   customers’ privacy is “incredibly important to
                                             information that’s useful to marketers ñ and   us,” so the company has “decided to remove
                                             that the plaintiffs would prefer not to be shared   the Facebook SDK in our iOS client and have
                                             without their express consent.       reconfigured the feature so that users will
                                                                                  still be able to log in with Facebook via their
                                               “Had Zoom informed its users that it would   browser.”
                                             use inadequate security measures and permit
                                             unauthorized third-party tracking of their   It’s up to each Zoom user to decide whether
                                             personal information, users ó like plaintiff    the concerns raised about Zoom’s privacy
                                             and class members ó would not have been   issues are deal-killers, or if the company’s
                                             willing to use the Zoom App,” wrote lawyers   moves to close the holes are sufficient to
                                             representing the plaintiff class, according to   allay those concerns. If the class action filed
                                             Law.com. “Instead, plaintiff and class members   against Zoom moves forward and you’re a
                                             would have forgone using Zoom and/or   user deemed to be part of the plaintiff class,
                                             chosen a different videoconferencing product   joining the lawsuit may eventually become an
                                             that did not send their personal information to   option for you, too.
                                             Facebook, or any other third party.”
                                                                                    Regardless of what else lies ahead for the
                                               Katherine Aizpuru, one of the plaintiffs’   company, Zoom’s software seems destined
                                             attorneys, told Law.com that the issue   to continue to be widely used during the
                                             is  “extremely  important  now,  because  ongoing pandemic, at least for the weeks
                                             businesses, families and individuals are   ahead, as more country, state and municipal
                                             increasingly connecting via Zoom.”   governments issue new shelter in place orders
                                                                                  or extend those already in place.
                                               “But it would be important even if many
                                             states  were  not  under  stay  at  home  orders,”   While the FCC waiver was due to expire on
                                             Aizpuru added. “Protecting consumer privacy   June 1, 2020, it’s safe to assume Inteliquent
                                             is only becoming more important as more of   has exercised it’s renewal option until further
                                             our lives move online.”              notice.


                                               Zoom hasn’t responded directly to the   Zoom meeting image by Zoom, provided in
                                             allegations in the lawsuits, but it did publish a   the company’s media kit
                                             blog post explaining the company has changed
                                             the way its software interacts with Facebook.
                                                                                    Gene  Zorkin has been  covering  legal and
                                                                                  political  issues  for  various  adult  publications
                                               “We originally implemented the ‘Login with
                                             Facebook’ feature using the Facebook SDK   (and  under  a  variety  of  different  pen  names)
                                             for iOS (Software Development Kit) in order   since 2002.
                                             to provide our users with another convenient
                                             way to access our platform,” Zoom Founder
                                             and CEO Eric S. Yuan wrote in the blog post.   Reprinted with permission from YNOT
                                             “However, we were made aware on Wednesday,
                                             March 25, 2020, that the Facebook SDK was
                                             collecting device information unnecessary for
                                             us to provide our services. The information
                                             collected by the Facebook SDK did not include
                                             information and activities related to meetings
                                             such as attendees, names, notes, etc., but


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