A couple of months ago, Zoom was a dull, if successful, videoconferencing app that not many people knew about. Yet there are growing concerns over what it does with users’ data. On Friday, Zoom issued a statement saying “whoops!’” and announcing it had updated its software to stop sending iOS data to Facebook. However, as we are forced to live even more of our lives online, let’s not stop holding tech companies to account. If we don’t stay vigilant, our privacy will be lost before you can say “Zoom”.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2020 06:00 UTC