Over the previous few weeks, Zoom’s use has exploded because it turned the video conferencing platform of choice in in the present day’s COVID-19 world. (My very own college, Harvard, makes use of it for all of its courses. Boris Johnson had a cabinet meeting over Zoom.) Over that very same interval, the corporate has been uncovered for having each awful privateness and awful safety. My purpose right here is to summarize all of the issues and speak about options and workarounds.

Normally, Zoom’s issues fall into three broad buckets: (1) unhealthy privateness practices, (2) unhealthy safety practices, and (3) unhealthy person configurations.