Zoom will let users stop data being sent through China after latest privacy scandal

Zoom will let its paid users decide where their data is going after its latest privacy scandal. The changes come after criticism over the fact that users' data was being sent through servers in Chinese data centres, potentially allowing conversations and video chats to be intercepted by the Chinese government as they were sent. Zoom said its centres in the country have "always been" geofenced, meaning that data generated outside of China would not move through the country. But chief executive Eric Yuan admitted that in the rush to meet demand during the coronavirus lockdown some best practices were not implemented and some meeting data may have been routed through China. Mr Yuan said this issue had since been corrected.