Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.

Zoom’s updated policy states that all rights to Service Generated Data are retained solely by Zoom. This extends to Zoom’s rights to modify, distribute, process, share, maintain, and store such data “for any purpose, to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable law.”, including AI and Machine Learning.

  • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Went to Infocomm this year, the audio / video trade show, to get the lay of the land on next generation conference systems.

    The two main elements at almost every booth were zoom and teams. Those two platforms have completely replaced IP based conferencing, and when the tide turns like this, no matter how bad the idea, we’re stuck with it for five to ten years.

    On both the hardware and software level, there just isn’t an alternative for corporate scale conferencing.

    I may be able to make the argument against zoom for privacy reasons, but I suspect teams isn’t going to be any better.

      • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s not so much a function of try, and yes, I’ve used it. It’s the fact that during lock down the whole company used Zoom and Teams, and changing systems now would take an act of God far above my paygrade.

        Historically, Tandberg, later acquired by Cisco, was hands down the best video conference codec. I have no doubt their new line is just as good.

        I can try forwarding this info to network security and see what they think.