Will work with Indian government on data privacy issues: Zoom

BENGALURU : Popular video conferencing platform Zoom has said that it is actively engaging with the Indian government on data privacy and security issues, adding that it is ready to share information with the authorities concerned to help them make “informed decisions”. The statement comes after the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond on a plea seeking a ban on Zoom. The petition alleged that the video conferencing app still has no “end-to-end encrypted calls and doesn’t run on a secure network”.

The plea also alleges that the Zoom app has a bug that can be misused intentionally to acquire information of users by third parties and that the Indian government has been made aware of the issue by the nodal cyber security agency. The SC has asked the Centre to respond to the plea within four weeks and has made Zoom Video Communications respondents in the case.