{"id":41050,"date":"2023-09-01T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=41050"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:11:39","slug":"zooms-privacy-blunders-push-businesses-to-look-for-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/zooms-privacy-blunders-push-businesses-to-look-for-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom&#8217;s privacy blunders push businesses to look for alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Zoom has been in hot water lately over its privacy policies after it was caught using users&#8217; data for advertising purposes without their consent.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">As a result, many businesses are now looking for more privacy-focused alternatives to Zoom.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">One of such options include Jitsi Meet, a open-source video conferencing platform that is free to use and offers end-to-end encryption. It&#8217;s also very easy to set up and use.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">Another is Google Meet which offers integration with other Google services. Although Google does collect some user data, so it&#8217;s not as privacy-focused as some other options.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Microsoft Teams, a more comprehensive collaboration tool than just a video conferencing platform is also another alternative. It offers good video conferencing features and is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity apps.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">Zoho Meeting is also a good option for businesses that are already using other Zoho business apps. It&#8217;s also very affordable, starting at just $10 per month for up to 250 attendees.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"7\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/4-zoom-alternatives-with-better-privacy-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZDNET<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom has been in hot water lately over its privacy policies after it was caught using users&#8217; data for advertising purposes without their consent. As a result, many businesses are now looking for more privacy-focused alternatives to Zoom. One of such options include Jitsi Meet, a open-source video conferencing platform that is free to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-41050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-zoom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41052,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050\/revisions\/41052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}