This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$.

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@josephcox This happened to our organization. Some sternly-worded emails seemed to resolve it, but it's an asinine thing to do.

[mschfr@mastodon.social]

@josephcox It's like all those scammy companies grabbing every PDF around and rehosting it, but in even worse

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@josephcox @brucelawson This is infringing so many privacy laws...

[nakdim@mathstodon.xyz]

@Em0nM4stodon @josephcox @brucelawson

I'm.... I am really out of words...

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon @josephcox @brucelawson are there any actively enforced over there?

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@wtrmt @josephcox @brucelawson Most privacy laws require to place an official complaint for enforcement at the individual level.

Anyone who had their data collected by a third-party like this without prior notification and consent, and has a local privacy law protecting against this, can likely place a complaint. It's often very easy to do.

Here's a short guide I wrote to help with this: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-report-privacy-violations/

[cullenwritestech@infosec.exchange]

@josephcox the weirdest thing about this is that there is, for sure!, an audience for these podcasts somewhere out there.

Someone is devouring the recordings of your meetings that should have been emails, at 3 A.M., while staring directly into the void.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@josephcox @Em0nM4stodon yep. It happened to an ICF coaching colleague.

Basically, extortion: "we have copied your content and have monetised it. Pay us if you want us to tell people it's yours." Or some such.

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@josephcox Literallg the only shield they have against how blatantly illegal this is is the "AI" layer.

[miki_lou@mastodon.social]

@josephcox This is sick. Zoom subscribers need to speak out to encourage legal action.

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@josephcox everything that has to do with AI is basically banditism in a suit

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@josephcox

So, anybody can spy on a Zoom meeting, even private ?

[nilajones@zeroes.ca]

@josephcox

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

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[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@jakobrosin @josephcox I've gotten couple of email from them. I've ignored them. I didn't realize how bad it was until this article.