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Written by: Lin Leqian
2020-04-20 21:10
Date of last update: 2020-04-20 21:10Affected by the new pneumonia epidemic, many students and wage earners need to work and attend classes at home. Video conferencing software has become the main communication tool. However, Zoom used by many people has been criticized for privacy vulnerabilities, including. The company has recently made product updates on data security questions, including paying users can choose a data transmission center in a specific area, and free users outside the mainland of China, their meeting materials will never be transmitted through the data center in the mainland of China.
Zoom said that from April 18, all paid Zoom users can choose to join or leave the data center in a specific area, and decide to connect to the conference server and Zoom connector of the Zoom personal meeting or webinar. In terms of data transmission, Zoom administrators and paying users can log out or join data centers in specific areas based on their permissions in accounts, groups, or different types of user levels.
After the software update, free users will be locked in the system preset area, for most users is the United States. For free users outside Mainland China, their meeting materials will never be transmitted through data centers in the Mainland China region. For users in China, if their accounts have not yet included the regional settings in Mainland China as an option before April 25, their meeting materials will not be transmitted through the China Data Center.
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