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By Ben Jardine<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SAN JOSE \u2013 Zoom will look to pause the development of new features of its video conferencing app, following growing concern about its safety and privacy issues among its users worldwide. The San Jose company which has benefited from the world-wide coronavirus pandemic<\/a> with many users joining its platform to have weekly work meetings, sports activities, and family quizzes.<\/p>\n Eric Yuan, Zoom\u2019s chief executive admitted to \u201cfalling short\u201d when it comes to the safety of the users that now amount to around 200 million from a mere 10 million users back in December 2019. Yuan said that Zoom is \u201cworking around the clock” to support the influx of new users, and he admitted that the company has “fallen short of the community’s – and our own – privacy and security expectations and for that, I am deeply sorry” he wrote.<\/p>\n Last month, Letitia James, the New York State Attorney General, launched an inquiry into Zoom’s privacy and security practices and as a result Zoom is now banned from all New York City schools.<\/p>\n Zoom was founded by Yuan in 2011 and after it became a public company in April last year, it was worth a staggering US$16 billion\u00a0by the end of its first day of trading, an amount so big it feels like it was won a bestuk.casino<\/a>. All of this was good to investors but they will no doubt be worried by the new phenomenon called ‘zoombombing’ which sees uninvited guests join video conferences, usually to shout abuse, share pornography or make racist remarks.<\/p>\n Zoom has since taken the following steps to address its users\u2019 concerns:<\/p>\n And over the next 3 months it plans to:<\/p>\n\n
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