Zoom is Leaking Peoples' Email Addresses and Photos to Strangers

Found on Vice on Thursday, 02 April 2020
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The issue lies in Zoom's "Company Directory" setting, which automatically adds other people to a user's lists of contacts if they signed up with an email address that shares the same domain.

"I just had a look at the free for private use version of Zoom and registered with my private email. I now got 1000 names, email addresses and even pictures of people in the company Directory. Is this intentional?," one user tweeted last week along with a screenshot.

Last week, Zoom updated the iOS version of its app after Motherboard found it was sending analytics data to Facebook. On Monday a user filed a class action lawsuit against Zoom for the data transfer. On the same day the New York Attorney General sent a letter to Zoom asking what security measures the company had put in place as the app has sky-rocketed in popularity.

It's just getting worse and worse for them. Whenever one hears abou Zoom, it's about pricavy problems, spying and tracking. It feels like you could just install malware instead of it.