Washington D.C.: Google has issued a ban on the use of Zoom teleconferencing platforms for its employees citing security concerns.
Zoom has become one of the most popular services for free video chatting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, Google emailed its employees about the ban, telling workers who had the Zoom app installed on their Google-provided machines that the software would soon no longer function. "We have long had a policy of not allowing employees to use unapproved apps for work that are outside of our corporate network," The Verge quoted Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda as saying. "Recently, our security team informed employees using Zoom Desktop Client that it will no longer run on corporate computers as it does not