'ZOOM' Violates Right To Privacy: Letter Petition To CJI Seeks Ban On Video Conferencing App [Read Petition]

A Letter petition has been written to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde regarding the infringement of fundamental Right to Privacy on account of permitting the use of ZOOM – a video conferencing application, and seeks for the ban on its download and usage.The letter-petition comes at the heels of the advisory used by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 12.04.2020 which stated that ZOOM was not. A Letter petition has been written to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde regarding the infringement of fundamental Right to Privacy on account of permitting the use of ZOOM – a video conferencing application, and seeks for the ban on its download and usage. Penned by Advocates Sanpreet Singh Ajmani and Aneesh Sharma, the letter-petition states that, in view of the lockdown imposed in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ZOOM – a video chatting/conferencing application which is available across all platforms, gained momentum and is being used as means of chatting/conferencing for various purposes such as online classes, online meetings, conferences and other allied purposes. The letter-petition brings forth the MHA advisory and states: "It is respectfully submitted that, once the Ministry of Home Affairs has reached to the conclusion that use of ZOOM application is unsafe, it should have recommended to ban the application in India rather than making further suggestive steps which are very complex in nature" It refers to assertions by "various news channels" which have cited developers of ZOOM themselves admitting the vulnerabilities of the application.