In a fresh blow to Zoom, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday issued an advisory on the use of the video conferencing app reported India Today.
It has said the use of the platform is “not safe.” The caution has been issued for Zoom users in India, whose numbers have increased dramatically over the past few days. Zoom has emerged as a one-stop solution for video meetings among users during the COVID-19-induced lockdown globally.
The looming concern on Zoom is related to the security loopholes that have been unearthed in multitudes, also emphasised by the regulators in countries such as the US and Taiwan.
Zoom’s potential to break free from the criticism pouring in from all directions is quite less, considering the platform has a dubious privacy policy.
Previously, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, cautioned the users in the US on using Zoom for their daily video meetings. The cases of what is being termed “zoom-bombing” have grown exponentially, wherein malicious actors intrude the video calls and inject them with unsavoury elements, such as swastika symbol and pornography.
Later, Taiwan announced a blanket ban on the usage of Zoom within the country’s borders.
There are alternatives to Zoom, such as Microsoft Teams, Skype, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Google Meet. But their adoption in these times has slowed, owing to the lack of features that Zoom, on the other hand, provides.
