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fermienrico ◴[] No.22738420[source]
Also, Zoom's entire engineering team is based in China [1]. China and Chinese companies have no real culture of user centric privacy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707528

Edit: Why downvote me? I am not trying to stir up flame wars. Saying anything against China has become impossible to do on HN. Voices get drowned despite of raising real legitimate concerns about privacy, especially for a tool used by millions all of a sudden during this pandemic. People should be speaking up on HN. I know, I am not supposed to complain about downvotes on HN, I've read the guidelines.

Edit2: Not able to find the source for Tianjin datacenter, I will reply if I can find it. Please take it with a grain of salt.

Edit3: Holyshit, so much attention on my comment. Redacting unsubstantiated claims and adding more sources that can be traced on the wikipedia section of Zoom privacy criticisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Crit...

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zorked ◴[] No.22739344[source]
Your comment is at the top. Please don't complain about downvoting.

"China and Chinese companies have no real culture of user centric privacy."

Citation needed. That's one billion individuals you are talking about.

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dang ◴[] No.22739378[source]
I don't think it's fair to call that borderline racist. That's an extremely strong word; let's not escalate where it isn't needed. The problem with the statement is that it doesn't come with any substantiation, or additional information.
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1. zorked ◴[] No.22739407[source]
Edited. Feel free to delete my comment, it's redundant now.
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2. dang ◴[] No.22739564[source]
I think the edited version of your comment is just fine.