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#Zoom agrees to pay $85M for lying to users, collecting and selling their data https://nu.federati.net/url/282215 [arstechnica com]
> Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent of users. The settlement between Zoom and the filers of a class-action lawsuit also covers security problems that led to rampant "Zoombombings."
> 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.
This is wholly inadequate. The company told users their data was end-to-end encrypted, so that it was impossible for anyone to intercept, then intercepted that data and sold it to other companies. This offense should earn the company the death penalty: seize its assets and then dissolve the company.