Zoom, the videoconferencing service whose popularity has soared during the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday said it was adding security measures to its software following scrutiny from independent researchers. The next version of Zoom, to be released this week, will have stronger encryption for data sent between participants in a meeting to prevent tampering, the Silicon Valley-based company said. The software will also allow Zoom account administrators to choose which parts of the world they route their data through. The upgrade follows a report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab that found Zoom routed some meeting encryption keys through China. The updates are an effort to adapt to the unprecedented amount of people using Zoom as they work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 200 million people used the software on a daily basis in March, and the Silicon Valley company at first appeared unprepared for the privacy and […]
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