The video conference app that has become particularly popular due to the Corona crisis zoom delivers Facebook now no more data. How Vice reports, became a software Development Kit (SDK) from Facebook removed from the own program code with which the “Login with Facebook“Function was offered.” We just wanted to offer our users another convenient way to enter our platform, “the company affirmed in a statement.
Multiple categories of data
“But we have been made aware that this Facebook SDK unnecessarily collects device data. “How zoom describes, no personal information about users was passed on, but information about the operating system version used, the time zone, the device type, the mobile operator, the screen size, the number of processor cores and the main memory size.
App update
After the update of the app it says in the version description for iOS now that “improvements in Facebook Login “. The login via Facebook is still possible, only the process now redirects to a mobile website.
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