US Senate tells members not to use video conferencing app Zoom

The US senate has told members not to use video conferencing app Zoom over security concerns, the Financial Times reports.

Senators have been asked to find an alternative platform to aid remote working, according to a person who told the FT that they had seen the warning.

However, the senate is believed to have stopped short of imposing an official ban on Zoom Video Communications Inc’s services.

Earlier the German foreign office has joined Google and other large organizations in limiting the use of video conferencing app Zoom over security concerns. Zoom is seeing a high level of traffic owing to global lockdowns.

Alphabet Inc’s Google also moved to ban Zoom from corporate laptops on Wednesday over similar concerns. The mounting levels of concern about the app’s reliability has led to a crash in share prices over the last 10 days, after the onset of the crisis saw them on the rise.

In response, Zoom Video Communications announced the hiring of former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser to improve the privacy and security of their app.

Read more via The Financial Times / DW