Urging an FTC investigation

In an open letter, the Digital Privateness Data Middle urged the Federal Commerce Fee to research Zoom and challenge privateness pointers for videoconferencing platforms. 

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat extra lately identified for spearheading  legislation that critics say could cripple modern encryption standards, referred to as on the FTC to research Zoom over what he described as “a pattern of security failures and privacy infringements.” 

Senator Blumenthal requires an FTC investigation into Zoom over current privateness and security points pic.twitter.com/xuayLVMja2

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox)

Third class motion lawsuit filed

A third class action lawsuit was filed in opposition to Zoom in California, citing the three most important security points raised by researchers: Facebook knowledge-sharing, the corporate’s admittedly incomplete finish-to-finish encryption, and the vulnerability which permits malicious actors to entry customers’ webcams.