US Federal Trade Commission indicates it is looking at Zoom privacy complaints
- Representative Jerry McNerney of California and others had written a letter to Zoom expressing concerns about data collection and storage
- FTC chairman Joseph Simons says his agency takes complaints seriously and if an issue is in the press, would be ‘looking at it already’
In a teleconference with lawmakers, Simons made reference to concerns that Representative Jerry McNerney of California had about Zoom.
McNerney and others had written a letter to Zoom expressing concerns about information collected about registered and non-registered users and recordings made by Zoom subscribers which may be stored in the cloud.
While not addressing the question of Zoom directly, Simons said the agency takes its complaints seriously.
“We are very happy to take complaints from any source,” he said. “If you’re reading about it (an issue) in the press, in the media, then you can be assured that we’re looking at it already or we will because of the media attention. If it’s out there in the media, we’re on it.”
An FTC probe would not necessarily find wrongdoing.
