Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

 

Zoom, a Videoconferencing service provides its paid users with preference selection. Controversial Video service provider zoom has announced its new policy for paid users.

Zoom will now let its paid customer pick, From which data center calls can be routed through. This feature is going to activate from April 18.

the University of Toronto’s citizen lab reported that zoom generated encryption keys driving the call location from china servers even the user is not physically present on the location.

Especially only paid users can access this feature and on the other hand, they need not use their default location. Australia, Canada, Europe, India, japan/Hongkong, Latin America, and the US are now the specific data center region for zoom.

Zoom free tire users are not accessible to these features. Any use outside of China won’t have their data routed through china. Free users can’t change their region, but data won’t be routed through China

Citizen lab has given encryption details on April 3rd. The China officials demanded to disclose their encryption code to the government.

zoom CEO Eric Yuan stated, “In our urgency to aid people around the world during this unprecedented pandemic, we added server capacity and deployed it quickly, starting from China, where the outbreak began”.

In that process, we failed to fully implement our usual geo-fencing best practices. So Zoom has since fixed the issue and confirmed that “we will prevent these kinds of problems in the future.”

Yuan on his April 1st blog post reported that Zoom would implement a 90-day feature freeze. To focus on fixing privacy and security issues. Zoom CEO Yuan so conformed about the raip user increase. He Conformed the December and March statistic which shows the increase from 1 million to 200 million.

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