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Zoom Lied about End-to-End Encryption

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The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M—to the class-action attorneys, and to users—for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent.

The proposed settlement would generally give Zoom users $15 or $25 each and was filed Saturday at US District Court for the Northern District of California. It came nine months after Zoom agreed to security improvements and a “prohibition on privacy and security misrepresentations” in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, but the FTC settlement didn’t include compensation for users.

Tags: courts, encryption, lies, videoconferencing

Posted on August 5, 2021 at 6:25 AM30 Comments

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