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Zoom is a program for video conferencing and for them video calls. You may have heard about it recently because it has also been used from schools to do the distance learning lessons during quarantine. Because we say that Zoom has some privacy issues? There are several reasons that push us to do this and we will try to explain them to you as always brief And clearly.
Meanwhile, until a few days ago (in fact they have now removed that part of the code) Zoom shared our data with extreme nonchalance with Facebook without though say anything in their privacy policy. A very serious accusation that comes, as often happens, from journalists Motherboard Always very attentive to privacy. In fact, it had been theirs to discover that Avast and AVG were selling our data.
Last year, always second 9to5mac.com Zoom allowed you to monitor activities on your computer And collected the data on running programs.
Zoom has some privacy issues
Furthermore on the ProtonMail blog we find a interesting article That does not recommend openly the use of Zoom and which explains in detail several notable things. We only report the bugs (or not?) from last year which allowed Zoom to bypass Safari's security system. It basically allowed him to ignore the Safari pop-up window that warns you when you are about to turn on the webcam of the device. You can read all about it ProtonMail blog.
Here's a brief explanation of why we say that Zoom has some privacy issues. If you need to make video calls you can read our article on alternatives in the times of COVID-19 written in collaboration with friends of Digital Ethics. In fact, we are talking about one of the better realities and alternatives to video calling programs like Zoom And Skype. In fact, let's talk about Jitsi, a project Open source with very few defects and many advantages. Moreover recently thanks to the project iorestoacasa.work you can use many video call servers made available by everyone.
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