Security News > 2020 > March > Zoom Kills iOS App’s Data-Sharing Facebook Feature

Zoom has removed a feature in its iOS web conferencing app that was sharing analytics data with Facebook, after a report revealing the practice sparked outrage.

In a Friday post, Zoom that it has now removed the "Login with Facebook" software development kit for iOS, which was the feature tied to the data sharing: "Our customers' privacy is incredibly important to us, and therefore we decided to remove the Facebook SDK in our iOS client, and have reconfigured the feature so that users will still be able to log in with Facebook via their browser," according to Eric Yuan, founder of Zoom.

Chris Hazelton, director of security solutions at Lookout, told Threatpost that Lookout researchers analyzed Zoom's most recent iOS version as of Monday morning, and confirmed they are still communicating with Facebook APIs in the current iOS version of the Zoom app.

"Zoom did update their app with version 4.6.9, which was updated to three days ago for 'Improvements to Facebook Login,'" Hazelton told Threatpost.

The host of Zoom calls have the ability to monitor activities of attendees while screen sharing.

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