- Zoom has become the video conferencing service of choice for hundreds of thousands of people since the coronavirus pandemic forced employees all over the world to work from home.
- Zoom offers high-quality video and many useful features, but the number of privacy concerns surrounding the app have continued to mount.
- In a new report, Motherboard reveals that Zoom is leaking private information of thousands of users to strangers, and giving those strangers the ability to call other users they don’t know.
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Few services have been bigger beneficiaries of the coronavirus pandemic than Zoom. As millions of workers from all over the world were suddenly forced to work from home, and friends and family had to cancel their plans to meet up, video conferencing became the tool of choice for long-distance communication.
Of the countless video conferencing services available on mobile and desktop, few could match Zoom when it came to the quality of the calls and the number of features the service offered. But we are now learning that there is a price to pay (beyond the monthly subscription fee) for using Zoom.
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Zoom is leaking thousands of email addresses and photos to strangers originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 10:30:45 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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