What are the privacy concerns with Zoom?

Zoom Privacy, Skype's Loss, Watching Quibi & Tech Limits in Solutions | Tech In :60 | GZERO Media

Nicholas Thompson, EIC of Wired, helps us make sense of today's stories in technology: What are privacy concerns with Zoom and what happened to Skype?

The privacy concerned with Zoom is if you don't password protect the meeting, someone can zoom-bomb-it and take over your screen and share a bunch of nasty stuff. So, password protect your meetings. What happened to Skype? They didn't innovate. They got surpassed. Huge mistake.

Why aren't there more efficient tech solutions to the medical supply shortage?

Because it's hard and massive. The big problem is that most of our medical supplies are made in China, not here. China needs them. It would have been much better if we had diversified, if we had many more ventilator production factories in the United States and mask production factories.

How many Quibi videos can I watch during lockdown?

A Quibi video goes up to about 10 minutes. The company has just launched. 43,000 minutes in a month. So, I guess you could watch 4,300 Quibi's in a month. So, three months, 12,900 Quibi's.

More from GZERO Media

- YouTube

What is motivating the Starmer UK government from seeking new security treaties with Germany and with Paris? What is the effect of Italy's very restrictive policies on migration and what's happening in the Mediterranean on the migration flows across the Mediterranean? Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shares his perspective on European politics from Tabiano Castello in Italy.

Attendees of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) campaign event for the Saxony state elections leave, as counter protestors stand in the background, in Dresden, Germany, August 29, 2024.
REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

Populist opposition parties of the right and the left are set to make big gains in local elections in two key eastern German states this Sunday.

At a joint press conference in front of the Constitutional Court in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea, on August 29, 2024, youth climate litigants and citizen groups involved in climate lawsuits chant slogans emphasizing that the court ruling marks not the end, but the beginning of climate action. The Constitutional Court rules that the failure to set carbon emission reduction targets for the period from 2031 to 2049 is unconstitutional and orders the government to enact alternative legislation by February 2026.
Chris Jung via Reuters Connect

South Korea’s constitutional court has ruled that the country’s climate change measures are insufficient for protecting the rights of citizens, particularly those of future generations.

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China August 29, 2024.
REUTERS/Trevor Hunnicutt/Pool.

Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a conciliatory tone when he met with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday, after three days of talks aimed at managing tensions in the US-China relationship.

Ari Winkleman

It used to be that the conservative right supported free trade and globalization, while the progressive left wanted protectionism for local industries. But in this campaign cycle — it’s as if a sequel titled “The Tariffs Strike Back” has been released — we must wonder, writes Publisher Evan Solomon: Is this the beginning of the end of globalization and the rise of a new age of tariffs?