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[–] StarManta 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“We won’t use your calls to train AI without your consent, so it’s a good thing our new TOS includes you giving us your consent.”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Exactly. They can say whatever the hell they want. In the end only the ToS matters. If the ToS says they can, then they will.

[–] CoolSouthpaw 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck Zoom. It was always a piece of shit software that was never all that secure to begin with. I hope they go out of business soon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they're the VHS of video calling software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the company i'm currently working at started to adopt jitsi meet when the lockdowns began and it worked just fine, but some higher up execs found it to be not fancy enough so they introduced zoom and since them the only ones using jitsi - we even licenced and branded it for our needs - are those outside the ceo/cfo-circles. i always try to advocate for "secure, private" services and software to co-workers, successfully introduced signal instead of whatsapp for work related chats, but in case of zoom, i'm biting on concrete. "it's so convenient and since we pay for it .."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Five months later:

Zoom did in fact use this data without consent

Zoom: Oopsie, that wasn't our intention, haha

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

OMG you're a time traveler!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Oops we've be caught, better backtrack!

[–] jerrimu 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Opting out = not using zoom

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sort of theoretically opt out for some users

[–] jerrimu 7 points 1 year ago

You have to read a 6 page Eula and that’s the only place with a link to opt out. In theory, I’m just spitballing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What they say doesn’t matter, it’s what they write that matters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just ditch zoom. There are plenty of other alternatives. I use jitsi meet: https://meet.jit.si/