Zoom to settle US privacy lawsuit for $85 mn

Zoom, the videoconferencing firm, has agreed to settee a class-action US privateness suit for $85 million, it said Sunday.

The suit charged that Zoom's sharing of users' personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn was a breach of privacy for millions.

While Zoom denied wrongdoing, it did hold to amended its security practices.

The settlement needs to beryllium approved by US District Judge Lucy Koh successful San Jose, California.

A Zoom spokesperson told AFP: "The privateness and information of our users are apical priorities for Zoom, and we instrumentality earnestly the spot our users spot successful us.

"We are arrogant of the advancements we person made to our platform, and look guardant to continuing to innovate with privateness and information astatine the forefront."

The colony volition acceptable up a "non-reversionary currency money of $85 cardinal to wage valid claims, announcement and medication costs, Service Payments to Class Representatives, and immoderate attorneys' fees and costs awarded by the Court," according to the preliminary settlement.

All people members are eligible for payment, it said.

Those who paid for an relationship tin person 15 percent of the wealth they paid to Zoom for their halfway subscription during that clip oregon $25, whichever is greater; portion those who did not wage for a subscription tin marque a assertion for $15.

As the coronavirus pandemic closed offices owed to health risks and companies shifted to moving online, usage of video and collaboration platforms hosted by companies including Zoom, Slack, Microsoft, and Google rocketed.

But Zoom's accelerated maturation came with unit to woody with information and privateness arsenic the level faced scrutiny from rising usage.

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