Video Conferencing Technology
Safety vs. Convenience in Video Conferencing Apps
Balancing security and ease-of-use is no small task for video conferencing companies, and not as easy or cheap to develop as consumers think.
Video conferences are happening on a handful of platforms, not hundreds, so it’s easy to narrow and isolate how these apps compare. Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google Meet, Adobe Connect, Cisco’s WebEx, GoToMeeting, Slack for business, and tools like WhatsApp, Signal, and FaceTime are familiar, but now there’s Tauria. The first business video conferencing program with end-to-end encryption and no-knowledge encryption for business.
Since video conferencing has increased with the number of people working virtually, and cyber crime up 330% as of March of 2020, you’d think there would be more attention on balancing security, cost, and ease-of-use.
Security
United States data privacy laws are fractured, weak, and built around loopholes; let’s be honest. Moving, sharing, and storing American consumer data around the globe on cloud-based servers is more commonplace than you’d think.
Zoom sent non-E2EE encryption and keys to servers in China. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told the Wall Street Journal he “really messed up.”
