On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 01:00 +0200, marc...@welz.org.za wrote: > The concern about using any gratis commercial videoconferencing > service is that quite a bit of biometric information can be > collected from you - in particular your voice and your face. > Your personal files are just a bonus. > > Recall a while ago some company called clearview.ai made the > news - given a picture of a person it finds all the other > photos of that person online, and does a good job of it too. > > Any videoconferencing service is remarkably well positioned to > generate an excellent facial model of you - given that there > is a bit of motion and much data of you staring at the camera, > a high-quality 3D model of your face can be constructed easily. > Zoom is introducing optional end-to-end encryption which would avoid this, after protest for free accounts as well as paid accounts, though free accounts would also need to verify themselves by providing a contactable phone number.
The reason they say it can't be automatic is that it wont be available for dial-in phones, SIP/H.323 devices, web browsers, Zoom webinars, and Zoom chat. This seems more of a potential interception threat to some commercial uses (since some conference room facilities currently use dial-in for sound) if you can't then access end-to-end encryption. You also have to decide to enable it on a per session basis. Has anyone checked what their current TOC/EULA says about use of the images/sounds they can intercept on their servers? -- Marjorie _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
