Security News > 2020 > April > Zoom Removes Data-Mining LinkedIn Feature

Zoom has nixed a feature that came under fire for "Undisclosed data mining" of users' names and email addresses, used to match them with their LinkedIn profiles.

Zoom founder Eric Yuan said in a Wednesday post responding to the concerns that Zoom will freeze the development of its features and instead focusing on security and privacy issues.

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

The policy now explicitly clarifies that Zoom does not sell users' data and will not going forward.

On the security side of things, Zoom has now patched several recently-disclosed vulnerabilities - including two zero-day flaws uncovered this week in the conferencing platform's macOS client version, and a UNC path injection vulnerability in the Zoom Windows client, which could enable attackers to steal Windows credentials of users.

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https://threatpost.com/zoom-removes-data-mining-linkedin-feature/154404/