Zoom's iOS App Comes Under Fire For Sending Data to Facebook

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According to reports, Zoom, the videoconferencing app, is under fire in its iOS version for, reportedly, sending data to Facebook, even if you're not a Facebook user.

Zoom's popularity has increased significantly over recent days as many are working from home, or just using it for personal use.

What’s more shocking is that the company’s privacy policy makes no mention of it. Plus, the app doesn’t make it clear anywhere that it’s sending your data to the social network.

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Eric S. Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications,posted a reply [blog.zoom.us] to the FB SDK iOS data slurp and privacy concern comments.

We originally implemented the “Login with Facebook” feature using the Facebook SDK for iOS (Software Development Kit) in order to provide our users with another convenient way to access our platform. However, we were made aware on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, that the Facebook SDK was collecting device information unnecessary for us to provide our services. The information collected by the Facebook SDK did not include information and activities related to meetings such as attendees, names, notes, etc., but rather included information about devices such as the mobile OS type and version, the device time zone, device OS, device model and carrier, screen size, processor cores, and disk space. 
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...we decided to remove the Facebook SDK in our iOS client and have reconfigured the feature so that users will still be able to log in with Facebook via their browser. Users will need to update to the latest version of our application...

Incompetence or malfeasance? Take your pick and run Wireshark...