We Live On Zoom Now – And That Might Be a Problem

On the Media

• Episode: We Live On Zoom Now – And That Might Be a Problem
• Website: On the Media
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia
• Duration: 00:13:32
• Published: 2020-04-02 18:00

Since many of us have retreated to our homes in the past month, we’ve been connected to each other mostly through our screens. Work meetings, dinners, catch-ups with old friends, classes, religious ceremonies, weddings, funerals. They’re all taking place in one location: our computers. And often, over an app called Zoom. A piece of software that until recently was mostly used for business-to-business conversations, Zoom has taken over lives... and, given the company's track record of misrepresenting its data and encryption policies, that might be a bit of a problem. For this podcast extra, Bob speaks with Motherboard journalist Joseph Cox, who recently broke the story that Zoom was sharing user data with Facebook.