Ted Gioia (@tedgioia)
nitter.net
Zoom terms of service now require you to allow AI to train on ALL your data—audio, facial recognition, private conversations—unconditionally and irrevocably, with no opt out. Don’t try to negotiate with our new overlords.

Be careful with Zoom guys.

Edit: It seems that they have updated their TOS , however I will never trust a company like this , remember with all of this AI going around right now Data is the new oil.

  • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    1 year ago

    What were the alternatives? One thing I can say about zoom is that it’s easy to use, barely ever has any issues and handles a huge number of participants without a sweat.

    I recall having used MS Teams before. But it often wouldn’t work, had server issues and couldn’t handle large audiences well.

    • Boxtifer@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Gotomeeting, WebEx, bluejeans.

      I was using WebEx for the longest time and our company switched to zoom. I recall that it was only for price and that there was a lot of missing functions that our team was used to.

      • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t see those as alternatives. Skype was always really buggy, sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t. Didn’t have great cross platform support and wasn’t suited for meetings without 500 - 1000 people. I used it in the past and it was always a huge pain to deal with.

        Hangouts is nice for 1:1 chats, but it feels lacking. Last time I tried to have a screen share in a separate window it already failed to do so.

        Discord isn’t really an enterprise tool.

        Like… I don’t really want to defend Zoom, but the one thing they do just works.