[manigandham]

Alarm for what? It's enterprise video conferencing tech. They make their money from subscriptions. Your personal data is rather useless to them and now a liability under data regulations.

Worrying about Zoom here (and I'm not sure the tweet is accurate) seems to ignore all context of the product and business.

[CivBase]

> Alarm for what?

That privacy policy is a clear indication that Zoom is only concerned about protecting themselves at all costs. They may not be acting maliciously, but they clearly aren't dedicated to acting ethically either.

I'm not saying it's an emergency, but a privacy policy like that should at least set off some warning flags for a privacy-concious user.

> They make their money from subscriptions. Your personal data is rather useless to them...

I don't care if the data os valuable to them as long as it's valuable to someone.

> ...and now a liability under data regulations.

The liability is worth it if the price is right.

[manigandham]

Every company will protect themselves. Why is this controversial? Please list the companies that open themselves up to litigation and show me how that's ethical.

"as long as it's valuable to someone"

This is so vague as to be meaningless. What about your browser, ISP, OS, phone, and the million other services that you use? Context matters.

"The liability is worth it if the price is right."

Are you claiming that a company selling enterprise video tech for 100s of millions and operating under all the latest data regulations is somehow trying to squeeze out a few pennies by selling some worthless data while risking massive lawsuits?