Zoom video communication software is increasingly being censured over its security flaws which some countries and organisations have alleged expose them to been spied on by China.
Taiwan is the latest country to ban government officials from using Zoom which is owned by a Chinese, Eric Yuan. The ban comes days after the company admitted to mistakenly routing its users traffic through servers in China, Sky news reports.
Taiwan and China have diplomatic spat over territorial claims. Both countries claim the other occupies its territory.
Recently, security experts at Citizen Lab discovered that calls made on Zoom in North America were routed through China, alongside the encryption keys used to protect them. The experts also noted that the company’s employees in China were vulnerable to being pressured by state authorities.
Many people all over the world are increasingly depending on video calls to conduct personal and official duties as governments are implementing stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
In the UK, security concerns have made the Ministry of Defence to ban its staff from using Zoom. Also in the United States, the FBI is investigating cases where trolls targeted school lessons with pornography. Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has also banned its employees from using video conferencing app Zoom, citing ‘significant privacy and security concerns’, days after U.S. law enforcement security agencies warned against the use of the app, Reuters reports.
“We recognise that we have fallen short of the community’s – and our own – privacy and security expectations. For that, I am deeply sorry,” Zoom CEO stated.
Recall that WAP news reported that the Lagos State government used Zoom for its executive council meeting – the first in the history of governance in the state — in compliance with the law against large gatherings, but it is not clear whether the government has security concerns as regards the use of the video calling software.
Zoom CEO, Eric Yuan has seen his wealth soar while other billionaires had been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. WAP news reported that while many billionaires lost in 2 months since the outbreak of COVID-19 what they had gained in two years, Zoom and Mindray, video calling and ventilator manufacturing firms respectively made big gains.
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