This lawsuit settlement with Zoom begs the question how much Facebook users should get, given similar false claims of end-to-end encryption.
Zoom misrepresented its end-to-end encryption
Strangely, the lawsuit excludes large customers who may have suffered the most egregious violations of trust.
…“registered, used, opened, or downloaded the Zoom Meeting App” between March 30th, 2016, and July 30th, 2021, you can file a claim for $15.
However, if you have only used Zoom with an “Enterprise-Level Account” or a government account, you’re excluded from the settlement.
Why? The settlement details are in a PDF Notice.
The key phrase (pardon the pun) in the court documents is on page 2 (also a PDF).
Zoom can still access the video and audio content of Zoom meetings.
That’s a similar problem to Facebook’s false representation of its implementation of encryption.
Technically however Zoom made a different set of mistakes, and a court doc like this one all about the details.
For example, the court says the plaintiffs might be right about Facebook and Zoom conspiring to violate privacy (after all, Zoom hired the disgraced ex-CSO of Facebook to help drive its Titanic-level errors) yet plaintiffs could not always provide evidence of how they themselves had been affected by each flaw.
The Court concludes that one former Plaintiff may have adequately alleged that Zoom shared her personal data through the Facebook SDK. Specifically, former Plaintiff Cynthia Gormezano alleges using...
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