---
type: concept
title: Zoom Data Protection Configuration
tags: [gdpr, privacy, security, configuration]
related: [zoom]
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
sources: ["output/rz_uni_greifswald_de_dienste_webdienste_webkonferenz_zoom.md"]
---

# Zoom Data Protection Configuration

To ensure that Zoom is used in compliance with data protection regulations (GDPR), hosts at Universität Greifswald must manually configure their accounts. This is managed via the "Settings" menu after signing in at `uni-greifswald-de.zoom.us`.

## Mandatory and Recommended Settings

### Security & Access
- **Security Options**: Require all meetings to be secured with a security option (**ON**).
- **Waiting Room**: Enable the waiting room to control entry (**ON**).
- **Passcodes**: Require passcodes for new meetings, instant meetings, and Personal Meeting IDs (PMI) (**ON**).
- **Phone Participants**: Require passcodes for participants dialing in via phone (**ON**).
- **Web Client Access**: Restrict meeting participation via the web client to authorized users only (**ON**).
- **Regional Restrictions**: Block or approve users from specific countries/regions where possible (**ON**).

### Encryption & Privacy
- **End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)**: Enable E2EE with at least "Advanced Encryption" (**ON**). 
    - *Note*: E2EE disables certain features, such as phone dial-in.
- **Feedback**: Disable "Feedback to Zoom" and "Meeting Feedback Surveys" (**OFF**).
- **Automatic Media**: Disable automatic moderator/participant video (**OFF**).

### Meeting Management
- **Audio**: Select only the minimum required audio options.
- **Muting**: Mute all participants upon joining (**ON**).
- **Chat & Files**: Enable chat and file transfers only if specifically required for the session.
- **Screen Sharing**: Disable screen sharing for participants by default; enable only if necessary for presentations.
- **Interactivity**: Enable annotations, whiteboards, and remote control only if required.
- **Re-entry**: Disable the ability for removed participants to rejoin (**OFF**).
- **Camera Control**: Disable remote camera control (**OFF**).
- **Virtual Backgrounds**: Enable the use of virtual backgrounds (**ON**).
