{"id":33325,"date":"2021-08-05T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33325"},"modified":"2021-08-05T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:36:21","slug":"zoom-settlement-for-misleading-encryption-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/05\/zoom-settlement-for-misleading-encryption-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom Settlement for Misleading Encryption Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/08\/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google\/\">Jon Brodkin<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/08\/04\/zoom-pay-85m-users-misleading-encryption-claims\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2021\/08\/zoom-lied-about-end-to-end-encryption.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/08\/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google\/\"><p>Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent of users. The settlement between Zoom and the filers of a class-action lawsuit also covers security problems that led to rampant &ldquo;Zoombombings.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.357336\/gov.uscourts.cand.357336.190.0.pdf\">proposed settlement<\/a> would generally give Zoom users $15 or $25 each and was filed Saturday at US District Court for the Northern District of California. It came nine months after Zoom agreed to security improvements and a &ldquo;prohibition on privacy and security misrepresentations&rdquo; in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, but the FTC settlement didn&rsquo;t include compensation for users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/zoom-meetings-arent-end-to-end-encrypted\/\">Zoom Meetings Aren&rsquo;t End-to-End Encrypted<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Brodkin (MacRumors, Bruce Schneier): Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent of users. The settlement between Zoom and the filers of a class-action lawsuit also covers security problems that led to rampant &ldquo;Zoombombings.&rdquo;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-08-05T18:36:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"3435d974-7b42-473a-86f4-2f32d6483161","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-08-05T18:36:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANDXZdHtCRzqG9C8y1kgxYQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1837,26,41,209,30,32,1891,355,1839],"class_list":["post-33325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-11-0","tag-privacy","tag-zoom"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33326,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325\/revisions\/33326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}