Example: Quarterly results for a publicly traded company before they are published. If those are leaked before the official time / date, whoever gets it first has an unfair advantage. They may get charged with insider trading, and the leaker as well.
>Quarterly results for a publicly traded company before they are published. If those are leaked before the official time / date, whoever gets it first has an unfair advantage. They may get charged with insider trading, and the leaker as well.
If this kind of thing is now done on a Zoom call, how is it any different than prior to Zoom being in the meeting, hearing the information and passing it on via another means, like a phone call? What value would leaking the call as in your example have?
I'm struggling a bit to think of any examples of private information being leaked that have really changed because of Zoom. Trusted employees are able to leak private corporate information, always have been.
A leaked Zoom meeting is a lot harder to deny. If a reporter gets a call saying “The CEO of BigCorp said a racial slur in the cafeteria” it’s hard to prove. A leaked Zoom meeting is more concrete evidence.
Have you ever had a meeting where sensitive information was shared?
Zoom meetings are like those, but with the sharing of sensitive information transmitted over the Internet. Someone could easily record their screen and audio and capture said sensitive information for subsequent sharing -- or "leaking"-- with someone else.
I must be too far detached from large companies to know/care about this.