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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

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1597 points seapunk | 3 comments | 27 Mar 20 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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luminati ◴[27 Mar 20 22:35 UTC] No.22707528[source]▶
Honest question [not trying to act controversial], especially with all the US-China spat.

Zoom's engineering team is based in China - the product is primarily built out of there. [1]

What guarantee is there that the CCP is not intercepting/backdooring all video communications? Especially in current situations, where so much sensitive information is being discussed via Zoom?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...

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tly_alex ◴[27 Mar 20 23:43 UTC] No.22707911[source]▶
Zoom as a legal entity is a US company, headquartered in San Jose, California. So US law should apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications

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1. cutemonster ◴[28 Mar 20 10:22 UTC] No.22710304[source]▶
For what reasons would spy organisations in other countries care about the laws in California or the US and following them?
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2. tly_alex ◴[28 Mar 20 20:58 UTC] No.22714283[source]▶
The question "What guarantee is there that the CCP is not intercepting/backdooring all video communications?" from luminati was towards Zoom, not towards any other orgnization. You might want read the question more carefuly.
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3. cutemonster ◴[29 Mar 20 09:12 UTC] No.22717468[source]▶
"was towards zoom" -- that's your interpretation of the question.

I think it was more "can I feel safe as an end user wrt the risk that the CPP intercepting and listening".