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Post by threatofrain »

From https://zoom.us/privacy:

> Whether you have Zoom account or not, we may collect Personal Data from or about you when you use or otherwise interact with our Products. We may gather the following categories of Personal Data about you:

> - Information commonly used to identify you, such as your name, user name, physical address, email address, phone numbers, and other similar identifiers

> - Information about your job, such as your title and employer

> - Credit/debit card or other payment information

> - Facebook profile information (when you use Facebook to log-in to our Products or to create an account for our Products)

> - General information about your product and service preferences

> - Information about your device, network, and internet connection, such as your IP address(es), MAC address, other device ID (UDID), device type, operating system type and version, and client version

> - Information about your usage of or other interaction with our Products (“Usage Information”)

> - Other information you upload, provide, or create while using the service ("Customer Content"), as further detailed in the “Customer Content” section below

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Post by maxerickson »

lghh wrote: post #3

Downside of what may be a societal long term shift to work from home is even LESS privacy. I find that ironic, but not surprising.

At least most work from home roles justify company owned equipment.

I certainly avoid mixing activities (I don't have access to a company computer at home, but I don't use the work computer or network for personal stuff).

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Post by kube-system »

lghh wrote: post #3

Downside of what may be a societal long term shift to work from home is even LESS privacy. I find that ironic, but not surprising.

I'm not sure this is an example of that. It is not atypical for office buildings to have cameras/timeclocks/access control which records the movements of employees throughout the day, packet inspection and/or MITM of your network traffic, and a boss that literally looks over your shoulder.

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Post by aquadrop »

threatofrain wrote: post #2

From https://zoom.us/privacy : > Whether you have Zoom account or not, we may collect Personal Data from or about you when you use or otherwise interact with our Products. We may gather the following categories of Personal Data about you: > - Information commonly used to identify you, such as your name, user name, physical address, email address, phone numbers, and other similar identifiers > - Information about your…

These don't look that bad, but what's describe in a tweet (tracking focus app etc) is much worse, it doesn't seem to be in the privacy policy though (or they masked it?). So where's the information about focused window come from?

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Post by neonate »

threatofrain wrote: post #2

From https://zoom.us/privacy : > Whether you have Zoom account or not, we may collect Personal Data from or about you when you use or otherwise interact with our Products. We may gather the following categories of Personal Data about you: > - Information commonly used to identify you, such as your name, user name, physical address, email address, phone numbers, and other similar identifiers > - Information about your…

That's shocking. How are they able to collect this?
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