19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -Ī Settlement has been preliminarily approved by the court in a case involving Zoom Video Communications, Inc. The presiding judge has not approved the settlement yet, and a hearing is scheduled for Oct. If you don’t get contacted but feel you should be part of the settlement, you need to provide “either an email associated with a Zoom account, a Zoom account number, or failing that, documentation and an attestation demonstrating that” you are a Class Member.ĭon’t get excited for a payout just yet. Zoom will provide a list of users eligible for compensation to the Administrator of the settlement, who in turn will notify those users via email. The plaintiffs estimate paid subscribers will receive an average of $35, while non-paying users will get $12. If you were a free member, you could make a claim for $15. If you paid for a Zoom account between March 30, 2016, through July 30, 2021, you are entitled to receive a 15% refund of your core Zoom subscription or $25, whichever is greater. Zoom’s lack of end-to-end encryption was also part of the suit, despite the company saying it had this security measure in place. Tap or click here to learn everything you need to know about Zoomboming.

This term indicates an interruption of a Zoom meeting by an unauthorized user, usually involving disturbing content. RELATED: Amazon has also caught some heat for mishandling user dataĪdditionally, Zoom was called out for letting “Zoombombings” take place. The lawsuit claimed that Zoom violated users’ rights by sharing data with the likes of Facebook and Google. Zoom settled an $85 million class-action lawsuit in California court last weekend.

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