In an alarming move, video conferencing giant Zoom recently updated its Terms of Service (ToS), raising serious concerns about user privacy and data exploitation. The new ToS allows Zoom to collect and use your Zoom audio, video, and chat data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. This update has raised eyebrows and sparked a debate regarding the true intentions of the company and the extent to which user privacy is being compromised and user data is being exploited.

Wired’s Joseph Cox has a brilliant idea: what is the best, most readily available consumer device to use to make completely secure calls, and to use for secure text messages and secure chat? (Well, at least as secure and locked down as the average consumer can easily make them?) An iPod Touch! Brilliant! Here’s why.

Wondering how to download and archive all of the private Facebook chat messages you have exchanged with one particular person? Facebook does not make it easy to figure out how to save your entire private Facebook message chat thread with one particular person, so we will. Here’s how.

Is your Macbook built-in iSight camera not working with Skype video chat? If you follow these simple steps, your Mac camera should work again with Skype video chat.

Facebook Chatheads and Chat Stickers came to the iPhone today, with the newest update to the iPhone Facebook app. Facebook Chat heads were first launched with the new “Facebook Home”, and its Facebook “Cover Feed”, which was rolled out on the Android platform. While the newly updated Facebook app for the iPhone doesn’t go as far as to offer a cover feed (and we’re not sure that’s necessarily a bad thing), it does give you the Chatheads, and also Facebook Chat “stickers” (think emoji on steroids), which you can get from the Facebook “sticker store”.