Updated on August 3, 2021 at 6:26 pm
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Zoom Video Communications Inc. will pay $85 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged Zoom failed to protect users privacy, attorneys for the plaintiffs said.
The settlement is pending approval by a judge, with a motion for preliminary approval filed on Monday in federal court in San Jose, the attorneys said.
The suit against the San Jose-based videoconferencing company was first filed in March 2020 and included a dozen plaintiffs who alleged that Zoom failed to provide end-to-end encryption of meetings, improperly shared users information, and left users exposed to zoombombing, which is when unauthorized third parties join a video conference with the intent to disrupt.
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A new report published Monday found that social media platforms are failing to block the vast majority of reported antisemitic content, with Facebook and Twitter in particular showing the “poorest rate of enforcement action.”
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Meanwhile, the nation’s top cybersecurity official on Monday endorsed the idea of a new bureau that would track and analyze cybersecurity incidents to help understand trends and potential future attacks, while the newly unveiled $1.2 trillion bipartisan Senate infrastructure package includes several cybersecurity provisions.
FALLING SHORT: Major social media platforms failed to block 84 percent of antisemitic content that was reported to them through their own tools, according to a new report.
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