Zoom Accused of Illegally Sharing Personal Data With Facebook in New Lawsuit

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Zoom was reportedly sending data to Facebook, even for users that don’t have Facebook accounts.

Zoom Video Communications, the online video conference company that’s seen its business flourish amid the coronavirus pandemic, has illegally shared user information with Facebook and other third-party apps, according to a new lawsuit.

The lawsuit follows a report from Motherboard last week Zoom was sending data to Facebook, even for users that don’t have Facebook accounts.Motherboard’s article noted:”This sort of data transfer is not uncommon, especially for Facebook; plenty of apps use Facebook’s software development kits as a means to implement features into their apps more easily, which also has the effect of sending information to Facebook.

 

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