Zoom was secretly mining LinkedIn data and sharing it with some users

Zoom would take the LinkedIn profile data and connect it to the user’s Zoom account, allowing other people in the meeting to view the user’s real name, employer, job title, and location.

The video conferencing platform was able to match a user’s real LinkedIn profile with their Zoom name, even if they weren’t using their real name on the platform.

To see this data, Zoom users just needed to have subscribed to a sales prospecting service called LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

And as many new users flock to the service, numerous concerning discoveries have been made as it relates to security and privacy on the Zoom platform.