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Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

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Re: Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

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Post by intopieces »

I'd like this to be independently verified. There were a lot of comments on the other threads that "Of course Zoom was sending data to Facebook" because they're using Facebook's SDK. It made it seem like such data leaks were inevitable, when apparently they aren't.

Re: Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

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Post by Operyl »

jscholes wrote: post #5

So did they just... remove Facebook login? Doesn't seem that likely. Maybe the FB SDK has some flags you can set.

> "We will be removing the Facebook SDK and reconfiguring the feature so that users will still be able to login with Facebook via their browser. ..."

It sounds like this they're just no longer flat out using the Facebook SDK (which provides a slightly more "native" / "nicer" login flow for apps when used). They're going to do what most (at least, from personal experience) apps do and just show a webview with a redirect back into the app, which doesn't call out to Facebook at all.

EDIT: That is, it doesn't call out to Facebook at all until you start the login flow, which is just opening a browser view to the oauth2 flows..

Re: Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

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Post by mroche »

intopieces wrote: post #2

I'd like this to be independently verified. There were a lot of comments on the other threads that "Of course Zoom was sending data to Facebook" because they're using Facebook's SDK. It made it seem like such data leaks were inevitable, when apparently they aren't.

From the article:

> Motherboard downloaded the update and verified that it does not send data to Facebook upon opening.

Edit: Fixing mental hiccup, nothing to see here.

Re: Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

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Post by thulecitizen »

ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #3

And so zoom crumbled from the social pressure, while every other service and website is thinking "oof, they didn't realize that everybody does this to do advertising"

Sometimes I really wonder who is on hackernews that stuff like this gets downvoted. Apparently a healthy dose of (scientific) skepticism means one is being ‘rude’ in SV circles. I guess the intellectual-property-rentier industrial complex that is Silicon Valley doesn’t like people looking behind the curtains.
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