<story><title>Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying</title><url>https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsflover</author><text>&amp;quot;To make this possible, Free&amp;#x2F;Basic users seeking access to E2EE will participate in a one-time process that will prompt the user for additional pieces of information, such as verifying a phone number via a text message. Many leading companies perform similar steps on account creation to reduce the mass creation of abusive accounts.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Perfect instrument to collect more personal data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Their argument doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense.&lt;p&gt;The objective behind verifying accounts is to prevent spammers creating lots of spam accounts and using those to spam.&lt;p&gt;However, spammers rarely care if their spam is encrypted, so putting E2E behind verification won&amp;#x27;t do anything as far as spammers are concerned - they&amp;#x27;ll happily keep spamming using the unencrypted accounts.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s some other reason behind this that &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; about reducing spam.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying</title><url>https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsflover</author><text>&amp;quot;To make this possible, Free&amp;#x2F;Basic users seeking access to E2EE will participate in a one-time process that will prompt the user for additional pieces of information, such as verifying a phone number via a text message. Many leading companies perform similar steps on account creation to reduce the mass creation of abusive accounts.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Perfect instrument to collect more personal data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aunche</author><text>Is there any E2EE app that doesn&amp;#x27;t require verification? Whatsapp does. Even Signal requires a phone number.</text></comment>