Zoom Video Communications, the videoconferencing company whose internet app became a mainstay of American life during the coronavirus pandemic, has agreed to pay $85 million and improve its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of its users.Filed in March 2020, not long after the pandemic reached the United States, the suit claimed that Zoom shared personal data with third-party internet services and allowed hackers to interrupt online meetings through so-called “Zoombombing,” a phenomenon in which internet trolls exploit a screen-sharing feature on the videoconferencing app to show offensive messages or images.Under the settlement, which still …
