Private Video Conferencing - A Knowledgeflow Project

PVC

An Independent Security and Privacy Analysis of Popular Videoconferencing Tools

About Us

We are fourth year students at Ontario Tech University and have investigated these tools over a three-month span for our capstone project for DataRisk. Our team is comprised of Matthew Grant, Jamie Kennedy, Stephanie Markovski, Jayden Tan, and Jiechen Zhu. Throughout this project, we operated under the supervision of Claudiu Popa, a certified cybersecurity professional from DataRisk Canada.

The investigation involved narrowing our focus to the features/topics which are important to user privacy and security to the list present in the column headers seen in our table. As well as documenting whether the feature or topic is present and proven. This consisted of researching the tools in depth, substantiating claims where they were made, and where possible, trying it out for ourselves. Our investigation concluded on the 12^th of April, 2021.

Our Findings

Tool	Final Score	Entry Buffer	Peer-to-Peer	GDPR Compliance	End-to-End Encryption	Privacy Officer Response Time	Recording Deletion	Recording Storage	Reports of Surveillance	Transparency Reports	Privacy Affecting Host Privileges	Open Source
Whereby	3.96/5	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes 23 Hours	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cisco Webex	3.68/5	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes 19 Hours	Yes	Yes Locally	No	Yes	Yes	No
Kaltura	3.23/5	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes 38 Hours	Yes	Yes Locally or Kaltura MediaSpace	No	No	Yes	Yes
GoToMeeting	3.23/5	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes 18 Hours	Yes	Yes Locally	No	No	Yes	No
Microsoft Teams	2.53/5	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes 8 Days	No	OneDrive or SharePoint	No	Yes	Yes	No
Google Meet	2.3/5	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes 39 Hours	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Tauria	2.21/5	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes Locally	No	No	No	No
Zoho Meeting	1.78/5	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes 9 Hours	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Jitsi Meet	1.74/5	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes 2 Days	No	Yes Dropbox	No	No	No	Yes
Zoom	1.48/5	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes 3 Hours	Yes	Yes Locally	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Skype	1.33/5	No	No	No	Yes	Yes 8 Days	Yes	Yes Skype Chat	Yes	Yes	No	No