The Ministry of Home Affairs had released a statement on the afternoon of 17th April stating that the much famous video calling app “Zoom”, is actually not safe for usage. But this didn’t come as a shock to many as reports of the application stealing user data had already been making rounds. The app “Zoom” had recently gained huge popularity as the world went into a lockdown due to Covid-19. Schools, colleges, offices and even the Indian courts have been Zoom as a mode of communication, as it allows upto 100 participants to join a call together. But the application has been accused of stealing personal information of the users, leaking that data and there have also been reports wherein malicious actors intrude the video calls and inject them with unsavory elements, such as swastika symbol and pornography. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) had said in an advisory recently that “Insecure usage of the platform may allow cyber criminals to access sensitive information such as meeting details and conversation.” Taiwan, in fact, has already imposed a blanket ban on the use of the app. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a nine step guideline which includes practices like setting a new user ID and password for every meeting, denying the entry of unauthorized entities, locking the chat room once everyone has joined the meeting and many more, in an effort to make the citizens vigilant and save them from any cyber-attack.
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