On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 01:00 +0200, marcxdv@??? wrote:
> The concern about using any gratis commercial videoconferencing
> service is that quite a bit of biometric information can be
> collected from you - in particular your voice and your face.
> Your personal files are just a bonus.
>
> Recall a while ago some company called clearview.ai made the
> news - given a picture of a person it finds all the other
> photos of that person online, and does a good job of it too.
>
> Any videoconferencing service is remarkably well positioned to
> generate an excellent facial model of you - given that there
> is a bit of motion and much data of you staring at the camera,
> a high-quality 3D model of your face can be constructed easily.
>
Zoom is introducing optional end-to-end encryption which would avoid
this, after protest for free accounts as well as paid accounts, though
free accounts would also need to verify themselves by providing a
contactable phone number.

The reason they say it can't be automatic is that it wont be available
for dial-in phones, SIP/H.323 devices, web browsers, Zoom webinars,
and Zoom chat.

This seems more of a potential interception threat to some commercial
uses (since some conference room facilities currently use dial-in for
sound) if you can't then access end-to-end encryption.

You also have to decide to enable it on a per session basis.

Has anyone checked what their current TOC/EULA says about use of the
images/sounds they can intercept on their servers?

--
Marjorie