Re: Privacy CG - New Teleconference Zoom Room

Hi all!

I’ve previously raised concerns regarding Zoom in the W3C WebAppSec WG. Here’s the EFF’s recent commentary:

“There are a few things to keep in mind when using Zoom, particularly in instances where users are relying on the conferencing tool for their studies, or for work-related activities.

## Attendee Attention-Tracking

The host of a Zoom call has the capacity to monitor the activities of attendees while screen-sharing. This functionality is available in Zoom version 4.0 and higher. If attendees of a meeting do not have the Zoom video window in focus during a call where the host is screen-sharing, after 30 seconds the host can see indicators next to each participant’s name indicating that the Zoom window is not active.

## Administrators and User Tracking

Zoom allows administrators to see detailed views on how, when, and where users are using Zoom, with detailed dashboards in real-time of user activity. Zoom also provides a ranking system of users based on total number of meeting minutes. If a user records any calls via Zoom, administrators can access the contents of that recorded call, including video, audio, transcript, and chat files, as well as access to sharing, analytics, and cloud management privileges. 

For any meeting that has occurred or is in-process, Zoom allows administrators to see the operating system, IP address, location data, and device information of each participant. This device information includes the type of machine (PC/Mac/Linux/mobile/etc), specs on the make/model of your peripheral audiovisual devices like cameras or speakers, and names for those devices (for example, the user-configurable names given to AirPods). Administrators also have the ability to join any call at any time on their organization’s instance of Zoom, without in-the-moment consent or warning for the attendees of the call.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis

Can we find a more privacy preserving conferencing product for Privacy CG meetings? Thanks!

   Regards, John

> On Mar 20, 2020, at 3:30 PM, Tanvi Vyas <tanvi@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> We've move to a different zoom room for our biweekly teleconferences.  If you have created a calendar invite for our calls, please update it with this:  
> 
> Meeting ID: 769 153 986
> https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/769153986
> 
> We will use it for our next teleconference on Thursday at 9am PST.  Thanks!
> 
> ~Tanvi
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