Google has banned the popular videoconferencing software Zoom from its employees’ devices, BuzzFeed News has learned. Zoom, a competitor to Google’s own Meet app, has seen an explosion of people using it to work and socialize from home and has become a cultural touchstone during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have long had a policy of not allowing employees to use unapproved apps for work that are outside of our corporate network,” Jose Castaneda, a Google spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News. “Recently, our security team informed employees using Zoom Desktop Client that it will no longer run on corporate computers as it does not meet our security standards for apps used by our employees.
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Google employees using zoom instead of hangout? 🤷🏽♂️
Shouldn't they be using Hangouts for work-related stuff? 👀
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How I wish that there was a huge one to destroy these company .
elizabeth_joh As a friend told me, the s in zoom stands for security.
'bad actors' can control my camera and microphone...? so, like... Keanu Reeves might show up on my screen? 😂
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