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| With Zoom, customers have more control over where to place calls |
Zoom announced that customers of the premium version will be able to choose a data center from April 18 through which they can make direct calls. In a report published by the Citizen Lab Citizenship Report, Zoom found that Zoom generated and changed keys for certain calls from the server. In China, even when no one is on the phone.
According to Zoom, customers with a paid version can subscribe or unsubscribe from certain areas of the data center, although the company cannot cancel subscriptions in its default region, and service data centers are located in Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Latin America and the states United. United States of America.
Clients with a free version cannot change the default data center region, but do not forward China data to customers outside of China.
Citizen Laboratories released a report on April 3 describing how Zoom Server uses cryptographic keys created by Chinese servers. In theory, this means that the Chinese authorities can ask Zoom to disclose these encryption keys to the government.
Zoom Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said that the service did not properly implement best practices of common geographical protection as it sought to provide additional capacity to meet the massive demand for the platform during the Corona pandemic and added that the platform enables communication with some of these meetings with the Chinese system. However, this was not the expected behavior, and the company has fixed the problem.
The CEO of the company announced that the platform would stop developing features for 90 days to focus on solving privacy and security issues, and said the number of zoom users had increased from 10 million. Daily users in December to 200 million daily users in March. Because of the epidemic, people meet at home.