The entire selling point of zoom over a peer-to-peer solution is that it's not peer to peer, but rather every client connects to the server that mediates the co

The entire selling point of zoom over a peer-to-peer solution is that it's not peer to peer, but rather every client connects to the server that mediates the connection. It needs to decrypt the stream. Peer to peer connections would quickly become impossible when you have meetings with more than a handful of people connected. Meetings/Webinars with hundreds of participants would be impossible with P2P technology. Adding proper videoconferencing hardware would be tough using P2P since all that supports is usually some sort of SIP standard. Zoom does collect some data by virtue of providing the service - it knows the IP addresses of all clients connecting, it does know all the data you enter when you create an account. It knows the OS that the client runs on. And their privacy policy reflects that.