RE: Zoom and AI training

From the CEO (yes, sometimes CEOs just talk so we shall see): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericsyuan_given-that-many-friends-have-reached-out-activity-7094824287336861697-CGMy/

From what I could tell in my reading the other day, the W3C would need to partake in ZoomIQ and customers would have to give consent: https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/

A video explaining the ToS from an (former?) attorney: https://youtu.be/FsVs1CIYIeM

I'm leery of this and watching them carefully and I hope that what the CEO has said is not just a bunch of hot air.

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Todd Libby
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On Thursday, August 10th, 2023 at 6:04 AM, Siegman, Tzviya <tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> Hi Frederik,
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> The Advisory Board has flagged this as an issue at https://github.com/w3c/AB-memberonly/issues/184. Please add your thoughts.
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> From: Fredrik Fischer <fredrik.fischer@myAbility.org>
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> Hi,
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> Hello friends,
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> So, this happened: [Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models | TechCrunch](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/zoom-data-mining-for-ai-terms-gdpr-eprivacy/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHrytmNTfdjtdfHNSkGArV4H9KrgLJoPS4NAL_qLPDfw1S2iqv-KMAbVKUegHoBv3bEedNHYxS1iupR7QPCMkpUXqUvp4HMYkPgeDfiuzOlKWYFDN8_X3oUhSfA-YWUeZfkfa-4Z1XgQJvaElVVuVklHqPst1LOjoNCL_YTBzJO6__;!!N11eV2iwtfs!sGUPeqkhIdIr7DkOf2RYYhwu2UV7nkA2tXZA4NMVhukSGyYPZ1mxH4GOkEdqPgdHLoLrj_tD8-WKCoiRKcWrSI3idvNt$)
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> In short, Zoom’s new terms of service allow for the use of user and meeting data to train Ais, not just through Zoom itself but also in a context where data is sold to a third party for training purposes.
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> I know this is an ongoing story and that there may be rapid developments and damage control measures in the coming days, but the fact that Zoom hasn’t given a straight answer here has me a little on edge.
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> Is it known whether W3C as a whole is discussing this internally?
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