Webex Advanced Collaboration features Providing Amazing User Experiences while Protecting Privacy

Publisher

Cisco Webex (blog.webex.com)

URL

https://blog.webex.com/collaboration/hybrid-work/webex-advanced-collaboration-features/

Published

2024-09-18

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-10-14

HTTP status

200

License

Cisco website terms of use; no-redistribution; short excerpts and locators only

Source notes citing this source

• Cisco's blog says faces are detected only when the user is an active participant in a meeting, and only if that user has opted in. in context
• Cisco's blog says both the administrator organization setting and the user-level setting for facial recognition default to Off. in context
• Cisco's blog says facial recognition is available on Webex devices only and not in the Webex App. in context
• Cisco's blog says the facial recognition technology never streams the user's actual image to the face recognition system. in context
• The blog's feature table says no audio or video is sent to the Webex cloud, while its text says a face vector is sent; most likely the table means raw media is not sent, not that nothing leaves the device. inferred in context
• Cisco's blog says a Webex device uses its camera and software to create a vector data set representing a face and sends that data set to the face recognition service in the Webex cloud. in context

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2024, September 18). Webex Advanced Collaboration features Providing Amazing User Experiences while Protecting Privacy. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/webex-blog-advanced-collaboration-privacy

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-webex-blog-advanced-collaboration-privacy,
  title  = {Webex Advanced Collaboration features Providing Amazing User Experiences while Protecting Privacy},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2024},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/webex-blog-advanced-collaboration-privacy},
  note   = {Cisco Webex (blog.webex.com), accessed 2026-10-14}
}