Zoom video call service will improve user data protection

The team at the video calling service Zoom announced that next week it will launch an end-to-end service in test mode.

encryption. This will improve the protection of user data.

As TASS writes, the new function will protectdata from hacking when making video calls. End-to-end encryption can be turned on or off. It will be available to both free and paid Zoom users. At first, however, in a preliminary technical version.

Zoom also said that a function for holding online events in a new format with fundraising will soon appear.

Recall that Zoom has repeatedly become the object of criticismdue to user data leaks. In April, several thousand recordings of video calls were published in the public domain. Journalists then wrote that Zoom assigns open identifiers to calls and does not encrypt the connection.