Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws


Zoom has been trying to plug security issues, as it signs up millions of new users from across the world. – Reuters

Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on April 7, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and failing to disclose that its service was not end-to-end encrypted.

Shareholder Michael Drieu claimed in a court filing that a string of recent media reports highlighting the privacy flaws in Zoom's application have led to the company's stock, which had rallied for several days in the beginning of the year, to plummet.

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