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Apr 2020
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Zoom's Boom In Popularity Reveals Privac...

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This time of pandemic and social isolation is introducing a lot of new normals to us all. While we’re all holed up in our apartments, the need to interact with our friends and the outside world hasn’t just suddenly ended. In fact, people are FaceTiming and setting up Google Hangouts just to feel normal.


But one app, that I never even heard of until now, seems to be coming out on top as the choice video conferencing platform: Zoom. 


And its services have allowed us all to have chaotic Zoom parties with twelve friends screaming on top of each other. But as Motherboard's Joseph Cox has reported, the app, has a host of privacy issues.



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