Zoom settles US class action privacy lawsuit for $86m

If it finalizes they are offering to send me $15 ?<p>That is not enough for the damage to my reputation and that of my business. I recommended them to others for privacy important things and showed the advertised &#x27;e2e&#x27; that was advertised approved by us gov.<p>I also used it with several other security professionals to work in tandem on hacked servers. Passwords were not obfuscated do to our belief in the e2e.<p>Shouldn&#x27;t we get an opt-out of the class action email?

Glad to continue seeing regular reminders of what failed economic and legal systems look like in my very own backyard.

&gt; Zoom had invaded the privacy of millions of users by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn.<p>What personal data was shared? Was the sharing of data the problem, or the T&amp;C&#x27;s weren&#x27;t clear on it? The article doesn&#x27;t mention it.<p>What are the implications for other companies that share user data to advertising partners?

Zoom&#x27;s income in 2021 was 2.6 billion dollars.<p>$86m&#x2F;$2.6 billion = 0.033. If I earn $100k per year, that&#x27;s like a fine of $3300.

Can we get a law that forbids (or taxes enormously) class action settlements that result in less than $10 per class member?

&gt;It also accused Zoom of misstating that it offers end-to-end encryption...<p>I really think that we need some sort of standard definition for what this actually means. Pretty much everything claims E2EE these days just as long as there is some sort of encryption used somewhere in their system. Many (most?) are not doing something that would mean that only the end users would have access to the content, even in the face of assertive actions by the provider. Many get the technical details right but fail to properly inform the user about any critical actions required on the part of the user to make that possible.<p>Providers of such things should be expected to explicitly state who you need to trust and under what circumstances.

When they say sharing data with Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, is this intentional sharing for their profit or is this a side effect of using things like the Facebook SDK to support Log in with Facebook?<p>If they&#x27;re using these third party services they should absolutely have that listed in their privacy policy, but even if the end result is the same, the intention is completely different between the two.

Did zoom not have forced arbitration? When can forced arbitration turn into a class action?<p>The courts are public and law can be made from new interpretations and context (precedent). Coinbase, Kraken, etc have forced arbitration. Can this be overturned when a new interpretation (say securities law) could be made by a court in the open, vs arbitration which is private?

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When I visit this BBC article I get a pop up asking me to sign in and then my browser just freezes up and becomes very unresponsive. This is Safari on iOS. Anyone else experiencing the same?

Never use any closed-source software if privacy is important. With closed-source software, always assume that there is zero privacy, all your data will be shared with third parties, and your system is compromised.

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