Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by kccqzy on Friday March 27, 2020 @08:02PM (#22707988)

This is exactly what creeped me out when I first installed Zoom years ago.

Very few people cared when I commented this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20398084

Suffice it to say, I no longer trust Zoom to be running in my regular user account. I have a separate user on my Mac to isolate it. If you have the means, you might even consider a spare computer or a VM to run Zoom.

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by diebeforei485 on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:07PM (#22708604)

I use my iPad for Zoom. One of the few times I'm glad the App Store and sandbox exist.

Even their iOS/iPadOS app is annoying, because the first time you open it and sign in, it pops 3 (!) permission dialogs (Calendar, Notifications, and TouchID/FaceID). Way too aggressive IMO.

Now, if only they'd make a Mac App Store version of Zoom. I'd be so happy...

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Re:Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act by mrpippy on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:07PM (#22708605)

Man, it's disappointing to hear this has stayed the same for so long. In the future, Apple should sandbox 'preflight' to disallow writing files, and then enforce it as a condition of notarization.

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