March 27

Zoom removes Fb knowledge assortment characteristic

Responding to issues raised by the Motherboard investigation, Zoom removed the Facebook data collection feature from its iOS app and apologized in a press release. 

“The data collected by the Facebook SDK did not include any personal user information, but rather included data about users’ devices such as the mobile OS type and version, the device time zone, device OS, device model and carrier, screen size, processor cores, and disk space,” Zoom informed Motherboard. 

March 26 

Motherboard investigation: Zoom iOS app sending consumer knowledge to Fb

An investigation by Motherboard revealed that Zoom’s iOS app was sending consumer analytics knowledge to Fb, even for Zoom customers who didn’t have a Fb account, by way of the app’s interplay with Fb’s Graph API.