Zoom users top 300 mln despite growing ban list, shares hit record

Zoom users top 300 mln despite growing ban list, shares hit record

(Reuters) - Zoom ( ZM.O ) video conferencing app's user base grew by another 50% to 300 million in the last three weeks, as the company fought to quell a backlash around security and safety that has seen a number of governments and firms ban its applications.. We can confirm that Daimler prohibits the use of Zoom for corporate content until further notice.". Bloomberg News also reported wireless technology firm NXP had banned the app's use with external parties, and that employees at Sweden's Ericsson had been advised not to use it.. A Zoom spokesman reiterated that companies across the world have done exhaustive security reviews of its platform and were using its services.. Lea Kissner, formerly global lead of privacy technology at Google, and now a security consultant for Zoom, said the 256-bit GCM encryption being introduced with Zoom 5.0 next week was in line with what others in the industry were using..