Video calling app Zoom sued by its shareholder for hiding security flaws

Zoom Video Communications Inc has been reportedly slapped with a class-action lawsuit by its shareholder for t revealing privacy and security flaws to its users. popularity of video conferencing platform skyrocketed after lockdowns and stay-at-home orders owing to pandemic which laid bare security flaws of application.

Reports of “Zoombombing” flooded internet where users complained about interruptions by uninvited guests and posting hateful messs during online sessions. On April 1, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan apologised to its users saying company fell short of clearly conveying encryption practices and incorrectly suggesting that Zoom meetings were capable of using end-to-end encryption.

“While we never intended to deceive any of our customers, we recognize that re is a discrepancy between commonly accepted definition of end-to-end encryption and how we were using it,” company had said in a blog post.

Following clarification, shareholder Michael Drieu in a court filing reportedly said that privacy flaws of application have led to slump in company’s shares. Last week, New York attorney general’s office sent a letter to Zoom asking measures California-based company has taken to handle increased traffic and to heighten security to thwart hackers. 

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Screen hijack

office raised concerns about current security practices and vulnerability of app’s privacy given surge in traffic. Some of users took to Twitter to highlight issue y faced during meetings where trolls hijacked screen-sharing feature to interrupt meetings.

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Reports of digital surveillance by governments to trace cases of coronavirus and contain spread have also raised concerns over privacy, and rights activists believe that it could be next victim of coronavirus. “Governments around world are demanding extraordinary new surveillance powers intended to contain virus’ spread,” said Electronic Frontier Foundation in a blog post.

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(With ncy inputs)