Security News > 2020 > April > Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China

Zoom's security catch-up sprint has seen it announce its users will soon be able to choose where their traffic goes.

The new feature will help users in places like Taiwan, where the government banned Zoom after learning traffic could go through its frenemies in Beijing.

Instead its announcement spins the feature as a latency-buster, saying: "Beginning April 18, every paid Zoom customer can opt in or out of a specific data center region. This will determine the meeting servers and Zoom connectors that can be used to connect to Zoom meetings or webinars you are hosting and ensure the best-quality service."

The change means that administrators of paid Zoom users can opt in or out of traffic passing through the videoconferencing company's data centres in United States, Canada, Europe, India, Australia, China, Latin America, and Japan/Hong Kong.

Zoom wrote: "For users based in China, if your account admin has not opted into the China data center by April 25, your account will not be able to connect to our mainland China data center for data transit."

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