Author: Jay Peters
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Digital rights advocacy group Access Now has published an open letter to Zoom calling on the video conferencing company to release a transparency report.
Publishing transparency reports is a common practice for larger tech companies — both Google and Microsoft, for example, share the number of requests they get from law enforcement and from governments for user data and if they disclosed customer data as part of those requests. Zoom, however, hasn’t yet published a transparency report, likely because it is a smaller company and holds less personal data.
Zoom has seen significant growth as workers, families, and even presidential campaigns have used the video conferencing software for virtual meetings due to the ongoing coronavirus...
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Digital rights advocacy group Access Now has published an open letter to Zoom calling on the video conferencing company to release a transparency report.
Publishing transparency reports is a common practice for larger tech companies — both Google and Microsoft, for example, share the number of requests they get from law enforcement and from governments for user data and if they disclosed customer data as part of those requests. Zoom, however, hasn’t yet published a transparency report, likely because it is a smaller company and holds less personal data.
Zoom has seen significant growth as workers, families, and even presidential campaigns have used the video conferencing software for virtual meetings due to the ongoing coronavirus...
Continue reading…
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