German Foreign Ministry Limits Use of Zoom, Citing Security Concerns

The German foreign ministry has restricted use of the video conferencing service Zoom to fixed-connection desktop computers because of “critical” security and data protection weaknesses, the newspaper Handelsblatt reported. A memo to employees cited by the paper said that, “based on media reports and our own findings, we have concluded that Zoom’s software has critical weaknesses and serious security and data protection problems.”

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