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As COVID-19 forces schools, offices, as able-bodied as social groups to move their daily operations online, video calling service Zoom has become the new centerpiece of many people's daily life. Except the increased use has brought insighted scrutiny to the company's data practices. Every day, it seems, new vulnerabilities in the platform are struggling to light.

Today is no exception. The New York Times discovered that Zoom has been supporting a data-mining feature that automatically matched users' names as able-bodied as email addresses to their LinkedIn profiles back they spanking in -- uptown if they were anonymous or utilizing a pseudonym on their call. If culling user in their meeting was subscribed to a service chosen LinkedIn Sales Navigator, they were brawny to insertion the LinkedIn profiles of unneeded participants in their Zoom meetings by clicking an icon next to their names -- without those users' loquacity or consent.

Reached for commentary by the Times, Zoom declared that it takes its users' privacy "extremely seriously" as able-bodied as that it will disedge the feature.

LinkedIn conjointly told the Times that it will suspend its Zoom kindredship "while we investigate this further."

Zoom says it takes users' privacy "extremely seriously"

Zoom has made several changes to its practices in return to contempo privacy backlash. Afterwhile a software founder distinguishable that the service was frigidity macOS restrictions to install itself without users rigging final consent, Zoom issued an update to suppress the trickery. CEO Eric S. Yuan cracking a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy as able-bodied as security issues.

Zoom conjointly well-timed its iOS app aftermost week to suppress code that shared device data with Facebook, as able-bodied as it rewrote parts of its privacy policy afterwhile users as able-bodied as privacy experts distinguishable that it didn't prevent the hair-comb from utilizing customers' claimed data for targeted ads.