Privacy experts reviewed popular video-chat apps, and *yikes*

When it comes to protecting your privacy, not all video chat apps are created equal. 

This much has been made abundantly clear as the coronavirus pandemic forces many to work and socialize remotely for the foreseeable future. And while Zoom has been on the receiving end of justified criticism, a new report by Mozilla Foundation privacy researchers warns that it's far from the only privacy offender. 

For the report, released today, researchers looked at 15 video chat apps — Zoom, Google Hangouts, FaceTime, Jitsi Meet, Skype, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal, Microsoft Teams, BlueJeans, GoTo Meeting, Cisco WebEx, Houseparty, Discord, and Doxy.me — and evaluated them based on a host of categories. Not all the apps fared well, to put it bluntly.   Read more...

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