The Privacy Office and the five places issue a joint statement urging videoconferencing companies to improve the protection of personal data

Under the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many company meetings or classrooms are conducted as video conferences.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data stated that today (27), together with five data protection regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, issued a joint statement to set out suggestions for improvement to the video conference company to further protect personal data.

The Office of Privacy and the five data protection regulators in Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Switzerland and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement.

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Personal Data Privacy Commissioner Zhong Liling said that since July 2020, the Office of Privacy and five other data protection regulators have communicated with four major video conferencing companies, including Cisco (Cisco), Google (Google), Microsoft ( Microsoft) and Zoom.

The Privacy Office pointed out that through exchanges, it was learned that major video conference companies have implemented good measures in terms of security and transparency.

However, the co-signing agency also listed some suggested improvement measures, including providing all users with end-to-end encryption options; after making clear to the users, their data can be used for other purposes; where feasible, the use is allowed They choose the places or jurisdictions through which their personal data will be transmitted or stored; if it involves sharing data with third parties in extraterritorial jurisdictions, safeguard measures must be implemented.

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