Why is Zoom not banned in India following calls for boycott of Chinese apps?

Indian government recently issued a ban on as many as 59 Chinese apps in wake of rising Indo-China border tension in Lakh, citing national security concerns. TikTok, ShareIt, and UC Browser are amongst most used apps in country that me it to ban list, however, many Indian users were left with questions, “why did government t ban Zoom” and “why is Zoom still working”?

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Why is Zoom t banned in India?

Zoom is t a Chinese-based company at all. It is an American company which was founded by Eric Yuan, a Chinese-American billionaire businessman. company is hequartered in California and incorporated in Delaware. Yuan, who owns 22% of Zoom Video Communications, holds American citizenship.

dressing app security concerns, a recent CERT-In visory stated that latest version of Zoom 5.0 has been released that comes with support for AES 256-bit GCM encryption of meeting data, offering higher resistance to tampering.

national techlogy arm also said that re are a bunch of or security improvements in app which include changing minimum default password length for meetings, webinars and cloud recordings. In dition, re is ar security feature allowing mins to disable sharing on cloud recordings and also configure expiration times.

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Zoom is one of highly preferred platforms when it comes to video-conferencing needs. app gained prominence during coronavirus pandemic which necessitated need for a platform-facilitated communication amongst people working from home.

With massive explosion in Zoom users over past few months, re have been concerns from users surrounding data privacy especially after Computer Emergency Response Team of India, national cyber-security ncy, cautioned against cyber vulnerability of using video conferencing app. This led to demands from social media users calling for a ban on Zoom Communications, Inc. as well. t just Zoom, a number of users on social media platforms have also called for a ban on popular gaming app PUBG (PlayerUnkwn's Battlegrounds), and messaging service WhatsApp.

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