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[–] [email protected] 89 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Zoom is used by a lot of institutions for official, sometimes sensitive work (ex. Healthcare, education, etc.)

How are those plans affected by this change?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Zoom has a healthcare specific license for healthcare. Don't think they could add that in and stay HIPAA compliant, but I can't any exceptions in the ToS so maybe US healthcare is actually trash and this is "fine"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

It's definitely not fine, but they may be stupid enough to try and train a model on healthcare zoom meetings. I think I'm gonna let my healthcare company security team know. We do a lot of cross collaborative meetings with the university and I'm not sure their license is the healthcare one. Typically that's all just resolved through a business agreement, but if it's a part of the ToS now they may be violating HIPAA without knowing it even while having business agreements not to. Might be worth filling a complaint to give the hhs a heads up that they're potentially noncompliant.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My synagogue uses zoom and I’m afraid of the potential risk this might place them with now

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

for meeting and other video conferencing needs: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ , not hard to set up and get going.

and of course just video chat with no back end there is always https://vdo.ninja/ though I strongly recommend rolling up a jitsi-meet server

for streaming https://obsproject.com/

Zoom could easily be replaced at little cost other than someone's time and a donated fairly modern computer (note: businesses can often deduct the full value of the computer if it is two years or less old and is donated to a qualifying organization, such as a Synagogue).