They are referring to what one can check for themselves.
zoom.us tells you you have to agree with its cookie policy, which opts you into a bunch of things, including ârequiredâ stuff like facebook.zoom.us:
Its native apps are even worse - but they wonât warn what the Software Development Kits (SDKs) from third parties are doing on the background. If youâre an app dev, youâre more likely than not to use these: Top SDKs Installed in iOS & Android Apps and Games · SDK Intelligence by Appfigures - it saves a lot of time.
If ZOOM was a free social net or an adtech or a news media site that generates revenue through content distribution, it wouldnât be as surprising.
ZOOM is a video conferencing company.
The amount of telemetry they collect is astounding and - despite claiming on its /privacy page that they donât sell data - they actively share it, including with its adtech partners such as [youâve never of any of them, probably]:
(not the entire list from zoom.us)
These are the reasons why the security researchers, professors and the media are picking up on it, as ZOOMâs popularity rises.