Name: India says video conference app Zoom is 'not safe'
Brand: techcrunch.com
SKU: techcrunch-com-132
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

India says video conference app Zoom is 'not safe'

preview

India said today Zoom is ‘not a safe platform’ and advised government employees to not use it for official work as the video conference service&nbsp;surges in popularity in many nations including the world’s second largest internet market as billions of people remain stuck at home due to the coronavirus crisis.“Zoom is a not a safe platform,” the Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord) of India’s ministry of home affairs said in a &nbsp;(PDF) advisory. “Platform not for use by government officers/officials for official purposes,” said Press Bureau of India in a statement. The advisory includes guidelines for users who still wish to use Zoom for their private communications.The move comes as several companies including Google, Apple, NASA, and Tesla have urged — or warned — their employees from using Zoom, which has . German and Taiwan have also The firm, with market cap of over $40 billion, has come under scrutiny — and become — after several of its security and privacy lapses .Zoom has been trending on app stores in India in recent weeks, too, in a surprise as enterprise services rarely get traction with consumers in the country. Several Indian ministers in India have also tweeted pictures that showed they were using Zoom in recent weeks.The app is being downloaded more than 450,000 times a day for the last two weeks in India, research firm Apptopia told TechCrunch. This week, India also started a competition for startups to develop a secure conferencing app.Zoom chief executive has Eric S. Yuan has and pledged to prioritize focus on users’ privacy and security over development of new features. The firm recently also as an advisor.In a statement, a Zoom spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company takes its users’ security “extremely seriously.” The statement adds, “A large number of global institutions ranging from the world’s largest financial services companies and telecommunications providers, to non-governmental organisations and government agencies, have done exhaustive security reviews of our user, network and datacenter layers and continue to use Zoom for most or all of their unified communications needs.”

India said today Zoom is ‘not a safe platform’ and advised government employees to not use it for official work as the video conference service&nbsp;surges in popularity in many nations including the world’s second largest internet market as billions of people remain stuck at home due to the coronavirus crisis.“Zoom is a not a safe platform,” the Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord) of India’s ministry of home affairs said in a &nbsp;(PDF) advisory. “Platform not for use by government officers/officials for official purposes,” said Press Bureau of India in a statement. The advisory includes...

public

Manish Singh

Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams. Got a tip? tips@techcrunch.com

techcrunch.com

Credible

Speculation

Anecdotal Evidence

Generalization

Stacking the Deck

Appeal to Authority

Straw Man

Slippery Slope

Emotional Appeal

Red Herring

False Dilemma

Illogical

Moral Equivalency

Ad Hominem

Correlation w/o Causation

Semantics

Begging the Question

Faulty Analogy

Non Sequitur

Bandwagon

Dogmatism

Failing Occam's Razor

Biased

Pure Opinion

Hit Piece

Racial Bias

National Bias

Religious Bias

Financial Incentive

Political Agenda

Gender Bias

Misused Image/Video

Study Misinterpreted

Mistake

Misused Term

Science Misrepresented

Factual Error

Satire

Surface Level

Lack of Reliable Sources

Sensational

Not Credible

Investigative

Balanced

Well Sourced

Great Context

sports

entertainment

U.S.

international

business

technology

science

culture

politics

media

health

India says video conference app Zoom is 'not safe'

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS