Zoom agrees to pay $85 million to users for providing misleading security information

Zoom, the video conferencing service, will have to pay its users $85 million as a part of a class-action lawsuit settlement.

The video conferencing platform was accused of providing misleading information about its end-to-end encryption on the platform and in a security white paper. Along with that, it was also accused of providing users’ data to Facebook and Google without permission without their consent.

According to a report by ArsTechnica, the lawsuit was filed at the US District Court for the Northern District of California and the video conferencing platform has agreed to pay $85 million as a complaint settlement amount.