Security News > 2020 > October > Zoom Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption After Setbacks
Video-conferencing giant Zoom is rolling out a technical preview of its end-to-end encryption next week.
Zoom has faced various controversies around its encryption policies over the past year, including several lawsuits alleging that the company falsely told users that it offers full encryption.
Zoom previously said that it offered E2EE, but that marketing claim came into question after a March report from The Intercept said that Zoom's platform actually uses transport layer security encryption, providing only encryption between individual users and service providers, instead of directly between the users of a system.
On the heels of this backlash, Zoom in May acquired a small startup called Keybase, with the aim of providing more robust encryption for Zoom calls.
Zoom said that in phase one of its rollout, all meeting participants must join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app or Zoom Rooms.