{"id":25942,"date":"2020-05-23T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T07:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/ban-on-zoom-supreme-court-issues-notice-to-centre\/"},"modified":"2020-05-23T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T07:08:35","slug":"ban-on-zoom-supreme-court-issues-notice-to-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25942","title":{"rendered":"Ban on Zoom | Supreme Court issues notice to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Plea says the app made users \u2018vulnerable and prone to cyber threats\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to respond to a petition seeking a ban on the use of video communications app \u2018Zoom\u2019 for official and personal purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Bench led by Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde issued notice to the Centre on the plea raising privacy concerns. The court said the government should file a reply in four weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plea by Delhi resident Harsh Chugh said the app made users \u201cvulnerable and prone to cyber threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has alleged that the Zoom app \u201cpractices data hoarding and cyber hoarding,\u201d which include mass storage of personal data of its users and stores cloud recordings, instant messages and files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cZoom is reported to have a bug that can be abused intentionally to leak information of users to third parties. The app has been falsely claiming that calls are end-to-end encrypted when they are not,\u201d the petition said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It claimed that Zoom had apologised publicly for \u201cmistakenly routing traffic through China\u201d where Internet is heavily monitored by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plea has alleged that Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the nodal cybersecurity agency, has also warned Zoom users of cyber risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ban-on-zoom-supreme-court-issues-notice-to-centre\/article31653811.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plea says the app made users \u2018vulnerable and prone to cyber threats\u2019. The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to respond to a petition seeking a ban on the use of video communications app \u2018Zoom\u2019 for official and personal purposes. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde issued notice to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}