Zoom Company took initiative to provide privacy and security for users

Category : Technology & Science | Sub Category : Technology Posted on 2020-04-17 04:41:22

According to a blog dated April 1 by Zoom Founder and CEO Eric S Yuan, the usage of Zoom ballooned overnight, including from over 90,000 schools across 20 countries. The maximum number of daily meeting participants of approximately 10 million at the end of December 2019 on Zoom grew to more than 200 million daily meeting participants in March.

“However, we recognize that we have fallen short of the community’s – and our own – privacy and security expectations. For that, I am deeply sorry, and I want to share what we are doing about it,” Mr. Yuan had written.

Some lapses

Mr. Yuan admitted some lapses and committed to addressing two primary topics raised by the Citizen Lab — geo-fencing and meeting encryption.

As per the latest company blog, dated April 15, which follows the second weekly session of a webinar, wherein Mr. Yuan gives updates on Zoom’s ongoing privacy and security efforts, Zoom has added additional features such as placing a new security icon in the meeting controls, changeing Zoom’s default settings and enhancing meeting password complexity, among others.

It has also added that starting April 18, account admins will have the ability to choose whether or not their data is routed through specific data center regions.