Putting safeguards in place: Zoom hires former Facebook security chief to beef up privacy, safety

Zoom has not been having the best time lately. Despite being one the apps to garner a massive amount of popularity over the lockdown, the video-calling app has fallen prey to hackers and has had to revise its privacy policy to deal with some glaring loopholes.

To handle this crisis, Zoom has brought in former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos on as an adviser. They have also set up an advisory board to work on the app’s security and privacy issues. Stamos coming on board, of sorts, follows the ex-Facebook employee asking Zoom to be more transparent and roll out a 30-day security plan in a series of tweets.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan called up Stamos and asked him to help build up the company’s security, privacy and safety capabilities as a consultant.