Is $15 enough compensation for a failure of encryption and disclosure of details to Facebook, who themselves failed massively at privacy? Thus, the question is whether the remaining Plaintiffs adequately allege that Zoom disclosed their device data through Facebook’s SDK.Īnd on that note, with Plaintiff Cynthia Gormezano dismissing her “adequate” claims an important specific flaw was swept under a rug. However, on February 18, 2021, Gormezano voluntarily dismissed her claims against Zoom without prejudice. While Zoom’s iOS app still implemented Facebook’s SDK. Specifically, former Plaintiff Cynthia Gormezano alleges using Zoom on an iPhone “in March of 2020,” FAC ¶ 52-which is likely The Court concludes that one former Plaintiff may have adequately alleged that Zoom shared her personal data through the Facebook SDK. Technically however Zoom made a different set of mistakes, and a court doc like this one all about the details.įor example, the court says the plaintiffs might be right about Facebook and Zoom conspiring to violate privacy (after all, Zoom hired the disgraced ex-CSO of Facebook to help drive its Titanic-level errors) yet plaintiffs could not always provide evidence of how they themselves had been affected by each flaw. That’s a similar problem to Facebook’s false representation of its implementation of encryption. Zoom can still access the video and audio content of Zoom meetings. The key phrase (pardon the pun) in the court documents is on page 2 ( also a PDF). Why? The settlement details are in a PDF Notice. However, if you have only used Zoom with an “Enterprise-Level Account” or a government account, you’re excluded from the settlement. …“registered, used, opened, or downloaded the Zoom Meeting App” between March 30th, 2016, and July 30th, 2021, you can file a claim for $15.

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