[Air-L] fyi: Zoom claims right to use your sessions to train AI

[Fred Fuchs]

I'd like to believe Zoom merely plans to improve its 
voice-to-text service with this AI training. Still a few of 
our in-house concerns include:

1. Does this AI training include webcam, voice, text chat, 
or the text from voice-to-text in or from meetings held in Zoom?

2. Does the AI training include documents, spreadsheets, 
images, or other files transferred through Zoom?

3. Does the AI training include images, likenesses, or other 
information gathered during screen sharing?

4. What sort of data collection, if any, does Zoom do 
through its apps which run on PC, Mac, Android, etc.?

5. Will there be direct or indirect transfer or resale of 
the collected data?

We may move to an open source solution rather than Zoom. 
We're concerned about privacy and security, particularly 
given some of our projects.

Fred

-- 
Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer
FireSabre Consulting LLC
Content Services for Virtual Worlds
Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations


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On 8/7/2023 6:47 AM, Richard Forno via Air-L wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> As I posted to rickf at indieweb.social <mailto:rickf at indieweb.social> yesterday, for those who may be using Zoom for teaching, research, external collaborations and/or personal meetings, please note that their latest terms of service (7/27/23) sections 10.1 - 10.4 seems to give them the right to use the audio/video/shared content from your Zoom sessions to train AI models.[1] I'm not aware of any opt-out to this collection.   This item began surfacing over the weekend so more coverage in the coming days is likely as the tech & privacy communities digest the potential legal, medical, educational, and IP ramifications of this practice.
>
> [1] https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
>
> Just providing a heads-up for AoIRistas concerned with how their (potentially sensitive) data, voice, and/or likeness - or those of their friends, family, students, or collaborators - may be used by a third party.  IIRC BlueSky claims something similar with content posted on that platform, but imo that's not as far-reaching or potentially invasive as this move by Zoom.
>
> <sigh> One wonders if there are any internet ethics folks employed & empowered @ these places anymore, but I'm not optimistic. :/
>
> -- rick
>