WebinarTV is scraping open Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without asking anyone

404 Media has revealed that a company called WebinarTV is scraping publicly accessible Zoom meeting links and converting the recordings into content for its platform. This is happening without informing participants, and without paying for the content.

The method is technically straightforward. Zoom meetings with public links can, in principle, be accessed by anyone. WebinarTV exploits this systematically, using AI to transcribe and produce podcast-style content from the meetings.

The practice raises immediate questions about consent and copyright. Meeting participants have not given permission for their content to be used this way. In the EU and EEA, this may constitute a violation of GDPR, particularly Article 6 on legal basis for processing and Article 13 on transparency obligations.

For organizations, this is a concrete warning: open meeting links are not private. Internal discussions, client presentations, and strategy meetings run with a public Zoom link could in principle end up on a third-party platform.

The recommendation is straightforward: use password-protected meeting links, enable waiting rooms, and consider whether meetings actually need to be publicly accessible. The problem is not the technology, but how it is used.