Security News > 2020 > June > End-to-end encryption will be offered to all Zoom users

Zoom Video Communications has decided to extend the benefits of end-to-end encryption not only to paying Zoom customers, but to those who create free accounts, as well.

Zoom does an about-face on E2EE. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan announced their decision to bring E2EE to paid users only in early June.

In the meantime they've found a solution that will allow them to offer E2EE as an advanced add-on feature for all users while maintaining the ability to prevent and fight abuse.

"In different contexts, Signal, Facebook, and Twitter have all encountered disclosure and abuse problems with user phone numbers. At the very least, the phone numbers that users give Zoom should be used only for authentication, and only by Zoom. Zoom should not use these phone numbers for any other purpose, and should never require users to reveal them to other parties," they noted.

The EFF has called on other companies that provide communication tools to provide E2EE encryption to both users who pay for their services and those who don't.

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