There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I am here with my producer, Mike, and here's what you may have missed this week on the internet.

So, as you all know, in the pandemic, Zoom became such a ubiquitous part of all of our lives.

You would have your work meeting on Zoom, your therapy on Zoom, your happy hour on Zoom, your book club on Zoom.

But Zoom is still a tech company. And tech companies can be

very tricky in that they love to quietly slip some updates into their terms of service.

You know, that thing we all click without really reading too much? Last week, people started posting

screenshots of Zoom's new policies that state that people who use Zoom, just by using the platform,

consent to the company's use,

collection, and storage of, quote, service-generated data for any purpose. This includes,

quote, training and tuning of algorithms and models. And so just by showing up to a Zoom meeting,

you are consenting to use whatever comes up in that meeting, whatever you talk about,

images, whatever, for Zoom's, quote, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, and testing, among other uses. According to ZDNet, just by showing up on Zoom, users would then give

Zoom, quote, a perpetual worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable

and transferable license, and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import,

access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share,

use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works of, and process all of our content.

That's pretty bad. That is a lot of, like just by showing up to this meeting, you know, that's a lot of data to be giving over to Zoom just to show up.

So Zoom told Vice that they actually made this change to their terms of service back in March.

Notably, it sounds like Zoom didn't really go out of their way to make this super public until this week.

Users started posting screenshots of this new terms of

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