All about Zoom Video Call Platform and It’s Controversy.
                     All about Zoom 
Video Call Platform
and It’s Controversy
Introduction
• Zoom is video conferencing software for Windows, 
macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux.  
• Use of the platform is free for video conferences of 
up to 100 participants, with a 40-minute time limit.
• As of April 2020, Zoom's software has seen increased 
use due to the quarantine measures due to 
the corona virus pandemic.
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All about Zoom
• Automatically schedule meetings—and let 
people know about them
• Create recurring meetings with saved settings 
and one URL
• See who attended
• Collect information from attendees
• Record the call as a video
• Give attendees a waiting room
•  Let someone else schedule your meetings
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Pros & Cons of Zoom
Pros Cons
• Video calling • User experience in 
• Audio calling scheduling
• Conference calls • Recording editing
• Screen sharing • Air time recording
• Scheduling
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CONTROVERSY
No end-to-end encryption
• Zoom has falsely advertised itself as using end-to-end encryption.
• Zoom confirmed in a blog post that end-to-end encryption is not currently possible.
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Security flaws
• A number of security flaws affecting Zoom have been reported in the past and as recently as 
during April 2020.
• In 2019, it was revealed Zoom had quietly installed a hidden web server on user devices in 
order to get personal data.
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In-app surveillance measures
• Zoom has been criticized for its “attention tracking” feature, which allows a host to see if a 
user clicks away from a Zoom window for 30 seconds or more.
• This feature would allow employers to check if employees are into a work meeting or not.
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Selling user data
• A report from Motherboard found Zoom sends data from users of its iOS app to Facebook for 
advertising purposes.
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Alternatives of Zoom
• Skype
• Microsoft Teams
• GoToMeeting
•  Cisco Webex
• Google Hangouts Meet
• BlueJeans
• Join.me
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