Zoom could be letting your boss spy on you. All the privacy risks to watch out for – CNET

More than a year into working from home, you’ve likely mastered choosing your custom Zoom background, mercifully sparing your colleagues the sight of a growing pile of gym socks behind your desk, and you might think you’ve got a handle on the conference call software du jour. Unfortunately, there are a few other data security considerations to make if you want to hide your dirty laundry. Zoom quickly become the video meeting app of choice when the novel coronavirus caused a surge in work-from-home activity. As vaccines roll out and offices become hybrid workplaces, it looks like Zoom is here to stay. With that popularity, however, comes privacy risks, which extend to a greater number of users. Read more: 20 Zoom video chat tips, tricks and hidden featuresBrett Pearce/CNETFrom built-in attention-tracking features to exploitable software bugs and issues with “Zoom-bombing” (where uninvited attendees break into and disrupt meetings) — Zoom’s security practices have drawn scrutiny from users worldwide over the past year. In March 2020, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James sent Zoom a letter outlining privacy vulnerability concerns, while the New York City Department of Education moved to stop teachers from using the software to communicate with students. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also cautioned users working from home about the software’s onboard privacy features. Privacy experts previously expressed concerns about Zoom in 2019, when the video-conferencing software experienced both a webcam hacking scandal, and a bug that allowed snooping users to potentially join video meetings they hadn’t been invited to. The issues exacerbated by widespread adoption at the start of the pandemic were just the latest chapter in the software’s rocky security history, and prompted Zoom CEO Eric Yuan to respond to concerns in April 2020, freezing feature updates to address security issues over a 90-day update rollout. Though Zoom has since added new security features like end-to-end encryption, there are still a few things you should watch out for to keep your chats as private as possible. Here are some of the privacy vulnerabilities in Zoom that you should watch out for while working remotely.

Source: Zoom could be letting your boss spy on you. All the privacy risks to watch out for – CNET