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It has been reported that a company official email has sent to all employees to ban the use of the Zoom app on their computers, citing "security vulnerabilities". “We have long had a policy of not allowing employees to use unapproved apps for work that are outside of our corporate network,” Jose Castaneda, a Google spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News. “
In fact, New York City has banned the Zoom app in city schools as the New York Attorney General Letitia James raised concerns about Zoom, including whether third parties could secretly access users’ webcams, reports that the company shares data with Facebook, and whether the company was following state requirements about safeguarding student data. --reports from Chalkbeat
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The demand for the Zoom app has spur rapidly during the COVID-19 outbreak as the Zoom app has become the first choice for the videoconferencing service. However, Zoom app has also raised quite some service’s security and privacy concern. Some flaws has been found in Zoom software and encryption and it has been reported that Zoom didn’t use end-to-end encryption for its video meetings and had allowed thousands of strangers to see one another’s email addresses.
Zoom CEO and founder Eric S. Yuan acknowledged Zoom's security and privacy issues and would worked to fix security and privacy issues. - Statement from the Zoom Blog.
Source from: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans-zoom
