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Zoom updates iOS app to stop sharing user data with Facebook

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Video conferencing app Zoom updated its iOS app last week after a Motherboard investigation of the app showed that it was sending user data — such as user's device, time zone, city and an “unique advertiser identity” — to Facebook. This happened even if Zoom users didn’t have a Facebook account. Zoom’s privacy policy did not did not chalk out the extent of this data sharing, Motherboard found. Following the latest update, Motherboard said that the app was no longer sending data to Facebook upon opening. Following Motherboard’s investigation, Zoom said that it had implemented the “Login with Facebook” feature using the Facebook SDK (software development kit) for iOS. It claimed that it was “made aware” on March 25, that the Facebook SDK “was collecting device information unnecessary for us to provide our services”. Zoom’s claims no personal information shared: Zoom said that the information collected by the Facebook SDK did not include personal information and activities related to meetings such as attendees, names, notes, etc., but included information about devices such as the mobile OS type and version, the device time zone, device OS, device model and carrier, screen size, processor cores, and disk space. With the latest update, Zoom claims to have done away with the Facebook SDK in its iOS app. What Zoom didn’t clarify: Zoom did not clarify why its iOS app was sharing so much data with Facebook in the first place, and why the extent of this data sharing was not made clear in its privacy…

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