Soon after the video session began, “Zoom allowed a ‘known offender’.

In one incident in 2020, the Saint Paulus Lutheran Church in San Francisco hosted a bible study class in which most of the participants were senior citizens. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

The suit claimed that Zoom shared personal data with third-party internet services and allowed hackers to interrupt online meetings through so-called “Zoombombing,” a phenomenon in which internet trolls crash a videoconference and posts pornographic or hate images or otherwise to disrupt the meeting.Ĭlose-up of hand of a man holding a Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone with app for teleworking and conference call company Zoom, Walnut Creek, California, March 11, 2020. Zoom collected approximately $1.3 billion in subscriptions from the class action participants who paid for a subscription, according to settlement documents.

District Court in the Northern District of California granted final approval to the agreement, which was was granted preliminary approval in October 2021.Īs part of the lawsuit settlement agreement, Zoom Video Communications will pay the $85 million to users in cash compensation and also implement reforms to its business practices. On Thursday (21 April), federal judge Laurel Beeler of the U.S.

The settlement stems from 14 class-action complaints filed against the company by users between March and May of 2020, in which they argued that the company violated their privacy and security. Zoom Video Communications Inc., owner of the popular meeting application that rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, has agreed to a “historic” payout of $85m as part of a class-action settlement brought by its users.

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