What if your private Zoom call wasn’t actually private?

A recent exposé raises alarming concerns about a company called WebinarTV, which allegedly built a database of more than 200,000 recorded video calls by scanning the internet for meeting links and capturing conversations without participants’ knowledge or consent. These recordings were then reportedly processed with artificial intelligence and turned into searchable, podcast-style content.

If true, this represents a serious breach of digital trust.

Private meetings are where people share sensitive information every day. Businesses discuss strategy. Patients speak with doctors. Families connect across distance. These conversations rely on a basic expectation: that what is shared in a private meeting stays private.

But this report suggests a growing risk that any unprotected link could be treated as “public,” recorded without consent, and transformed into content for profit.

Even if some links are technically accessible online, that does not mean people have agreed to be recorded, indexed, and redistributed. Consent matters. Context matters. And the line between public and private should not be defined by whether a bot can find a link.

This is not just about one company. It is about a rapidly evolving digital landscape where artificial intelligence can capture, repurpose, and monetize human conversations at scale.

We call on the Federal Trade Commission, Congress, and major video platform providers to investigate these allegations and establish clear protections for private digital communication. This includes requiring explicit consent for recording, stronger safeguards against unauthorized access, and accountability for companies that exploit personal or professional conversations.

Technology should serve people, not silently surveil them.

If we lose trust in our ability to communicate privately, we lose something fundamental to how we work, connect, and live.

Sign this petition to demand privacy, accountability, and clear rules for AI and digital communication before it’s too late.