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Consumer Reports Urges Tighter Restrictions on Videoconferencing Data Collection

Videoconferencing services should store only the data needed to “deliver the service,” Consumer Reports recommended Friday (see 2004090019). This would mean limiting how data is shared with third parties and restricting data storage to what's used for improving products, the…

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organization said. CR recommended companies turn on by default the “most secure settings” for users. It said Zoom isn't the only such service with privacy issues. CR also examined privacy policies of Cisco’s Webex, Microsoft’s Skype and Teams and Google’s Meet, Duo and Hangouts.