Security News > 2020 > April > Zoom's Security and Privacy Woes Violated GDPR, Expert Says
Concerns over privacy and security raise important questions: is Zoom safe, and is it even GDPR compliant?
In our current example, we do not know whether the host asked for a copy to be kept by Zoom for future reference, or whether Zoom kept a copy by default.
The Cabinet Office did not answer our questions, but provided two unrelated comments, "National Cyber Security Centre guidance shows there is no security reason for Zoom not to be used for meetings of this kind." It also said, "The MoD uses Zoom to conduct cross-government meetings for official level business. There are no plans to review this."
Whether the NCSC has conducted its own tests on Zoom or not, there nevertheless seems sufficient privacy issues to wonder if Zoom is adequately GDPR compliant.
On the surface it would appear that Zoom has a case to answer - but Zoom hosts must also consider their own exposure as data controllers - especially regarding the valid consent issue.