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The Myth of Privacy and End-to-End Encryption in Zoom

Zoom is a service to host meetings without the need to install and configure complicated applications: it is one of the many solutions for those who, during quarantine, want to keep in touch with friends and relatives. In this last period of lockdown, Zoom is becoming popular because of how simple it is to host meetings, without a complicated setup. You share a link, and all the participants are connected. This has allowed many professors to implement distance learning using the Zoom.us platform. However, another debate is coming to life; in fact, while it is true that this platform allows millions of people to stay in touch with friends, family and colleagues, there are many doubts about its effectiveness in protecting users' personal data and therefore their privacy. My intention is to investigate in a technical way what data is actually sent to the Zoom servers. The first part of the analysis will take into consideration the privacy policy applied bef