Modi Govt Warns Indians About 'Unsafe' Zoom Meeting App
Zoom Zoom Blog Popular video meeting app Zoom has been in the news consistently over the past few weeks for multiple privacy issues. The latest advisory issued by the Government of India’s Cyber Coordination Center, or CyCord, suggests that individuals who may be using the Zoom app for personal usage or for official calls, should follow certain guidelines to make their video meetings safer. This follows the warning by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) that Zoom is not a safe app to use. Earlier, the Ministry of Home Affairs had made it clear that the Zoom app will not be used government officials. The latest CyCord guidelines indicate that users must have the lock meeting option enabled (this can be done by the administrator or the person who owns the meeting) once the video meeting has started. They also suggest that every meeting should have a new ID and password, and a waiting room feature should be enabled—here, the meeting host or admin
