Since becoming popular following the Corona crisis, the platform has been heavily criticized for calling encryption • Promising company: We will focus on fixing security issues

• Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom // Photo: AP

Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of the Zoom app, apologized this weekend in an official blog post to millions of its users about security and privacy issues that were discovered by the system and recently criticized the company. "We acknowledge that we have failed and disappointed our many users with regard to security and privacy views Of the world from us, ”Yuan wrote.

In the announcement, Yuan added that the company will only spend the next 90 days empowering the encryption of its flowing information, which is said to be end-to-end encrypted, and will in fact reject any other development steps that would be later in order to increase the security and privacy level of the app. .

The CEO also stated that the company would start publishing a transparency report, such as the Facebook, Twitter and Google network giants, and the report would publish all government requests for information from the company as the other tech giants do, and so the public knew what knowledge was provided and what the company's overall policy was To save his information.

Using the Zoom app, the global corona crisis soon crossed the threshold of 200 million users, something the company had not prepared for before. The public around the world has been running birthday parties, social gatherings, and even government meetings through the app.

However, it is paradoxically this startling leap that he found the company at a time when it was not yet fully prepared in terms of the information security it was streaming into and in fact it was having difficulty, and still having difficulty, controlling the huge stream and protecting it from hackers and spying.

Already, the FBI and the NY Attorney General have launched an anti-app investigation and it has downgraded the ability to collaborate in meetings with Facebook following allegations of security issues and information leakage. On this, Yuan said: "We did not imagine and planned that every person in the world would want to use our platform immediately. We were not prepared for this option at all."