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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by HenryBemis on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:11PM (#23483252)
> surveilling Zoom calls en masse? Documenting participants (face, voice, language, location, etc.),

The first time I read that Zoom is the shell (in the USA) while the majority of work is being done in China, I thought the exact same thing. That China has everyone's face 3D scanned by now (multiple photos from multiple angles), everyone's voiceprint, everyone's IP, transcripts of what was said and by who...

Now they are trying to rebuild their shattered rep, while still handing anything and everything to their patrons.

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by vectorrain on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:05AM (#23486318)
"That China has everyone's face 3D scanned by now (multiple photos from multiple angles), everyone's voiceprint, everyone's IP, transcripts of what was said and by who" As a native Chinese, I haven't been scanned by 3D scanner. How do you get this conclusion?
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by mathieuh on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:58AM (#23486635)
Presumably they mean that if you use your web cam with zoom they would be able to construct a 3D model of your face from the camera feed as you move your head around.
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by nix23 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:30AM (#23488637)
You don't need a 3D-Scanner for that, just a moving head and some minutes/seconds of video-material.
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