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Zoom's Boom In Popularity Reveals Privacy Issues

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This time of pandemic and social isolation is introducing a lot of new normals to us all. While we’re all holed up in our apartments, the need to interact with our friends and the outside world hasn’t just suddenly ended. In fact, people are FaceTiming and setting up Google Hangouts just to feel normal.


But one app, that I never even heard of until now, seems to be coming out on top as the choice video conferencing platform: Zoom. 


And its services have allowed us all to have chaotic Zoom parties with twelve friends screaming on top of each other. But as Motherboard's Joseph Cox has reported, the app, has a host of privacy issues.


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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The eagle one. The package is being delivered.

0:24.6

This time a pandemic and social isolation is introducing a lot of new normals to us all.

0:29.6

While we're all hold up in our apartments, the need to interact with our friends in the outside world, hasn't just suddenly ended.

0:35.6

In fact, people are FaceTiming and setting up Google

0:38.4

Hangouts just to feel normal. But one app, that I never even really heard of until now,

0:43.7

seems to be coming out on top as the Choice video conferencing platform. Zoom.

0:49.5

It's being called the Zooming of America.

0:53.3

Hey everyone.

0:57.6

As the nation enters yet another week of social distancing,

1:02.2

millions of Americans are staying in communication via the Zoom app.

1:04.8

And its services allow us to have chaotic Zoom parties with 12 friends screaming on top of each other.

1:07.7

But as Motherboards Joseph Cox has reported,

1:10.1

the app has a host of privacy issues.

1:13.4

I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

1:23.0

So Joseph, Zoom calls. Zoom. It's an app that, you know, people knew about it before, but I would say my mother didn't

1:31.6

know about Zoom until the pandemic hit.

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