Re: [projectvrm] Doc now on /.

[Britt Blaser < >]

Also in the TechCrunch article I shared yesterday:

“As others have noted, it does remain possible to perform a redirect manually, by adding your meeting ID to a Zoom web client link — zoom.us/wc/join/{your-meeting-id}."

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On Mar 28, 2020, at 1:29 PM, Doc Searls < " class=""> > wrote:

I don't know the answers to those questions (which are good ones... ever notice that people say "good question" when they don't have an answer?), but I do know some things are worth fighting for, whether the status is quo about them or not. Privacy is among those things.

Anyway, after my post yesterday https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/  struck a big nerve (it was at the top of Hacker News all day, and brought 17,500 visits to my blog by midnight and another 8500+ so far today), I did more digging and published my findings (so far) in today's blog, here: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/28/more-zoom/. Meanwhile, Zoom has been taking a bunch of other hits. See https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=zoom. Most or all of those could be avoided if Zoom simply stepped out of (what through a typo this morning I called) the advertising fecosystem, meaning the one that relies on tracking people.

Doc

On Mar 28, 2020, at 12:14 PM, JClark < " class=""> > wrote:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/03/28/0457212/doc-searls-zoom-needs-to-clean-up-its-privacy-act

I wonder if this will make any difference to most people. Near me, UC
Berkeley and DVC colleges are using it for their online classes. Can
students opt out of this by more than turning off mic & cam? Does that
make a difference?

j.