For using Zoom as securely as possible while disclosing as little personal data as necessary, we recommend the following settings:
- You should have an individual password for each meeting.
- An authentication in the Zoom system should not be required.
- Deactivate your microphone and camera by default, as soon as you enter the meeting.
- It should not be possible to save recordings in the cloud.
- It should not be possible to save the chat history.
- It should not be possible to send files via Zoom.
- It should not be possible to send automatic feedback to Zoom.
- Using virtual backgrounds should be enabled and even recommended.
- Only the host should be able to start recording.
- Only the host should be able to make annotations.
- When entering the meeting, the participants’ microphones should be muted. The host should then decide if it is possible to unmute the microphones.
- The possibility to re-name oneself during a meeting should be enabled.
- The “datacenter regions” should be as limited as possible, at best, only data centers in the EU or the European Economic Area should be selected.