On Monday, Zoom said that it's a US-based firm & does not share links with China. The clarification from the video conferencing platform comes after some reports included its name with Chinese apps that were red-flagged by the Indian security agencies over security issues.

A Zoom spokesperson in a statement said that "There have been several media reports implying that the Zoom Video Communications Platform (Zoom) is a Chinese app. This is incorrect. Zoom is a U.S. corporation, founded & headquartered in San Jose, California, & publicly traded on the NASDAQ. While we have subsidiaries in China & in many other parts of the world, like so many of our global peers, our operations & business are controlled by a leadership team in the US".

"The reports representing that an advisory released by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) claiming that the Zoom Platform is unsafe was based on earlier advisories by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). However, this is incorrect. CERT-In has released several notes & advisories with regard to the Zoom Platform since 2019; a practice followed for all major technology companies. The advisories & notes are primarily designed for public safety & awareness," Zoom also said.

In April, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had red-flagged the video conferencing facility as unsafe, days after India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) had raised concerns over potential cyber-attacks through Zoom.

The Govt. had said that "Insecure usage of the platform may allow cyber criminals to access sensitive information such as meeting details & conversations".

Zoom thereafter had said that it's in talks with the Govt of India on the concerns related to security. The video conferencing software of the San Jose, California-based company, which picked up demand globally amid coronavirus lockdown, had also said.

it's working on adding actual end-to-end encryption to further secure video calls, Zoom Video Communications, India Head, Sameer Raje, had said.

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