What’s actually behind this is the threat of a mountain of lawsuits that are gonna come descending on school systems that compromise little kids’ privacy by forcing them to use Zoom.
If the images of one child during their private moments show up on the internet because Zoom has so many vilnerabilities and a malicious actor was able to control the students camera school systems are gonna get sued out of their existence.
https://thenextweb.com/privacy/2019/07/15/german-schools-ban...
More specifically, Teams has been in use for several years now, without a faction of the security issues that Zoom has had in the last couple of years.
Edit: The US government regulations are the problem there which is why the article mentions that Google and Apple also do not meet the same privacy standards. In other words, all the OS makers fail to do so, and not just Microsoft.
The only solution that would probably work for the German standards (and is something the EU should be investing heavily in anyways) would be Linux.
And yeah, this is MS' attitude to privacy issues. The fact that nobody cares about that or doesn't want to write an article about it every day doesn't mean that it's less worse or somehow good. Zoom has been there for years too, just like those problems. The fact that now everybody DOES want to write an article about it is a result of the fact that it became so popular and it became so popular because it just works. Acting now as if MS is some kind of privacy heaven compared to Zoom is plainly wrong.
> The only solution that would probably work for the German standards (and is something the EU should be investing heavily in anyways) would be Linux.
This is not true. There were guidelines by the Federal Office for Information Security for Win7 that would work just like for certain versions of Office. Windows 10 is the first one where they plainly say: it's so ridden with privacy issues that it's just bad (data protection and privacy accident) and you should avoid it.