This comes after the Eric Yuan Zoom CEO’s meeting with the investors on Tuesday. Zoom says that end to end encryption won’t be provided to the free user’s which means law enforcement agencies can look into your video calls.
“Free users — for sure we don’t want to give [them] that, because we also want to work together with the FBI, with local law enforcement, in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose.” – Eric Yuan, Zoom CEO.
Concern regarding the security and privacy provided by Zoom has increased after the usage of platform has heavily increased since the COVID19 Pandemic and many weak points were also revealed since then.
This won’t eradicate the abuse on the platform but will reduce it. Since Zoom’s Trust and Safety team can enter a meeting visibly and report it if it’s abusive. End to end encryption would not allow the trust and safety team to enter a meeting. Zoom also says that there is no backdoor where a user can enter a meeting and not been seen.
With the business and enterprise users getting the end to end encryption feature organization such as schools and few who are in the business plan but not paying will get the end to end encryption feature.
Zoom plans to provide end to end encryption to users who can be verified, Zoom says that free users log in using their email id which is not enough to verify an individual so end to end encryption is not provided to them.
Zoom hasn’t provided a release date for this update.
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