Indian government says Zoom app is not a "safe platform"

The government of India : On 16-04-2020 The Home Minister said that the ZOOM APP is not at all safe.

In this COVID-19 the whole world is in lock down. The most of tech and non technical company's are using this application to connect with there employs. Nearly it got 200 millions of users for a day.

In this article you find Answer for the following questions

what is zoom application?
why zoom application is not safe?
Alternatives for zoom application

What is zoom aplication?

Zoom application is a video communication app. In this app 100 of people can participate at a time . Generally it is used for video communication and chatting.The most of the Private and government company's are use this app not even company's the central ministers and state ministers are also use this application.

This app was developed by the American communication technology company in april 21,2011. The headquarters is in san jose, california. Basically it provides cloud-based and peer -to-peer software platform.

Using of this application we can make a free call to 100 participants with 40 - minutes time limit. It also have monthly subscription with $15-100 per month

Why zoom app is not safe?

Zoom's data and security is to weak. In march 2020 the new York state attorney general started an enquire on zoom privacy and security . In this enquire zoom was banned in new York city schools. In march 2020 the company's ios app was send data to the face book. In this app there is a lot of security vulnerability and it don't have end to end encryption.

In this corona pandemic lock down most of the company's are using this application.The company's like NASA, elon musk's space exploration and google are banned this application and said to employs don't use this appliction. Nearly zoom as sold 10,000 users privacy data to the dark web.

Whether it is an american company but the servers are in china.