FOSS Alert: MiroTalk-Private & Secure WebRTC P2P Video Conferencing Tool

I just came across this project while on my YouTube rabbit hole journey: MiroTalk

The privacy policy for MiroTalk can be found here or is below here:

We limit ourselves to collect the smallest amount of user data that we need in order to create a seamless experience when using MiroTalk.

This data includes mainly: RTCICECandidates & RTCSessionDescription which is needed to establish the video call using WebRTC. RTCICECandidates, RTCSessionDescription is not stored in any persistent database, it’s removed from the server as soon as the user leaves the call by closing the browser window. The media streams are encrypted using Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP).

For Chat messaging and File Sharing, we using WebRTC’s RTCDataChannel to transfer data directly from one peer to another. With RTCDataChannel, all data is secured with Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS). DTLS is a derivative of SSL, meaning your data will be as secure as using any standard SSL-based connection.

If you record a meeting, the recording of the meeting is temporarily stored on Your browser Blob, then will be downloaded on Your PC/Mobile Device.

MiroTalk is purely peer-to-peer, which means the user’s video, audio, chat and file is not sent to our server at all.

We use Umami to track aggregated usage statistics in order to improve our service. The maker of MiroTalk has no intention of using personally or selling any of the above-mentioned data.

And you can learn about more about it here.

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My personal comments:

This seems like a neat little Jitsi/Teams/Jami alternative that can be used without any account and for free. All you need is your browser. I’d like to hear what you all think - try it if you can. The UI/UX feels slick too. I did post this on Techlore’s forum too but wanted to share the same here as well.

Jim’s Garage on YouTube made a video on it recently too.

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