Supreme Court closes hearing on demand for ban on zoom app

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New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Tuesday closed a PIL seeking a ban on the use of the Zoom application citing security and privacy concerns. Senior advocate Arvind Datar argued before a bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna that the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has not found anything wrong in the use of the application.

Datar further argued that many people use Zoom and the petition against it does not stand. He told that the concerned ministry said that there is nothing wrong in using zoom, and asked why target only us and not WebEx etc.? The petition was filed by Harsh Chugh, who sought a ban on the use of Zoom for official and personal purposes. The petitioner had argued that the software gives rise to several privacy and security concerns.

After hearing Datar’s submissions, a bench of Justice MM Sundresh closed the proceedings in the matter. The apex court also declined to entertain an intervention application for placing additional documents in the matter. During the hearing, the counsel for the petitioner argued that the government had issued some notifications that zoom should not be used and the government should now say that it is good to use zoom.

The bench said that it has considered the meeting of the National Security Council Secretariat held in December 2020 regarding the security features of Zoom, VC platform and in view of this document nothing survives in the petition. The plea also sought a direction to the government to conduct a detailed technical study of the security threats posed by the use of the app.
–IANS

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