02 August 2021
Here s an updated list of the dozens of security and privacy problems that have been found in Zoom.
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Do you use Zoom? Of course you do. After the coronavirus pandemic hit North America and Europe in March 2020, seemingly everyone who had to start working, going to school or even socializing from home started using the videoconferencing service.
But boy, were there growing pains. Zoom went from 10 million daily users in December 2019 to 300 million daily users in April 2020. Its security and privacy practices came under sharp scrutiny and experts didn t like what they found.
It turned out that Zoom s end-to-end encryption wasn t quite end-to-end, that other Zoom meeting attendees could see a lot about you, and that pranksters and bored teenagers could Zoom bomb public meetings with shocking or rude content.
Updated: 20:08 ET, Jul 24 2021
WARNINGS have been issued over the new Freedom Phone which claims to protect privacy and allow free speech without censorship.
According to the company and its founder Erik Finman, 22, the phone aims to create a future where free communication is not banned by Big Tech .
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Self-proclaimed Bitcoin millionaire Erik Finman on the set of Candace with the new phoneCredit: Getty Images - Getty
The phone has its own app store where no information is censored, allowing customers to read and watch whatever they want.
It also contains preloaded conservative apps, including ones which have been banned by other app stores.
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This faux phone risks running into the same problems faced by the conservative social networks of the past.
Ever since the rise of Donald Trump, conservative dissatisfaction with the technology industry has skyrocketed, with Trump and other Republican politicians frequently accusing “big tech” of bias and censorship towards conservatives. This tension existed even before Trump was suspended from Twitter following the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6.
This has manifested itself as the launch of a series of social networks, including Gab, Parler, and most recently Gettr, geared towards serving as conservative alternatives to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. However, those networks have frequently run into trouble. The type of content moderation their backers claim to disdain in the mainstream social media companies is necessary for running any type of functional social network especially if a person doesn’