Zoom is more popular than ever — but now it's got some major privacy issues

With great power, comes great responsibility... Video conferencing service Zoom has skyrocketed in popularity, riding the wave of the virus-induced mass WFH situation. But even the most popular video conferencing app in the school has issues (and more than a few bullies) — we'll get to those later:

• Zoom added more users in the first 2 months of this year than in all of 2019, racking up 2.2M new monthly users by the end of February.
• Now it's taken the Homecoming crown for the world's most popular iPhone and Android app.
• Zoom stock is also making friends — its share price has more than doubled since late January while the rest of the market has dropped over 20%.

But Zoom has some (not so hidden) vulnerabilities... And Zoom's privacy fails are getting more heat now that it's really relevant:

• Last year: Zoom had a security flaw that let hackers hijack your webcam.
• Last week: Vice reported that Zoom was sending users' data to Facebook, without really telling them about it, even if they didn't have a Facebook account (sketch).
• Now: "Zoombombing" incidents — professional Zoom meetings get crashed by, say, a naked person shouting profanities. They're surging.
• So: NY's Attorney General just sent Zoom a letter saying her office was "concerned" about this seemingly lax security.