27.1. Zoom
American company, with Chinese-born now American Citizen CEO Eric Yuan (袁征), migrated to the US around 1997), and development teams largely China-based to reduce costs.
News:
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2020-12-18: China-based exec Xinjiang Jin (靳新江), AKA Julian Jin, charged with sabotaging Zoom conferences, FBI issued a wanted warrant for him.
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2020-12-22 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-china-s-n1252092 summarizes a bit more details about the block
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55372493 "US charges ex-Zoom employee with shutting down Tiananmen Square events"
Zoom statement:
"We learned during the course of our investigation that the China-based former employee charged today violated Zoom’s policies by, among other things, attempting to circumvent certain internal access controls," it said.
It added that the employee "took actions resulting in the termination of several meetings in remembrance of Tiananmen Square and meetings involving religious and/or political activities" and "also shared or directed the sharing of a limited amount of individual user data with Chinese authorities".
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(possible uncofirmed linkedin) https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-jin-953615175/: Zhejiang University, (ex?) CISCO Webex. Work start date of 1981 could be birth date to enlarge work experience, and that would reach the correct age of 39.
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2020-06-10 Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)'s account as blocked after a celebration of Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件), which was attended by many people from China. The account was later reinstated, Zoom said it acted on a CCP request on error, and it won’t do this for users outside of China anymore:
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/zoom-says-china-demanded-shutting-activists-accounts-over-tiananmen-event-idUSKBN23I3GP "U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts"
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https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html "Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist 'to comply with local law'".
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7WmfJq-yzvKdKBH0oppc/edit
Figure 284. 2020-03-27 photo showing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson using Zoom on a Cabinet meeting (a high level Government meeting) during Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus (2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查). If you don’t properly ban risky dictatorship-linked software, it will get used at the highest levels of Government by clueless people. Source.
American company, with Chinese-born now American Citizen CEO Eric Yuan (袁征), migrated to the US around 1997), and development teams largely China-based to reduce costs.
News:
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2020-12-18: China-based exec Xinjiang Jin (靳新江), AKA Julian Jin, charged with sabotaging Zoom conferences, FBI issued a wanted warrant for him.
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2020-12-22 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-china-s-n1252092 summarizes a bit more details about the block
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55372493 "US charges ex-Zoom employee with shutting down Tiananmen Square events"
Zoom statement:
"We learned during the course of our investigation that the China-based former employee charged today violated Zoom’s policies by, among other things, attempting to circumvent certain internal access controls," it said.
It added that the employee "took actions resulting in the termination of several meetings in remembrance of Tiananmen Square and meetings involving religious and/or political activities" and "also shared or directed the sharing of a limited amount of individual user data with Chinese authorities".
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(possible uncofirmed linkedin) https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-jin-953615175/: Zhejiang University, (ex?) CISCO Webex. Work start date of 1981 could be birth date to enlarge work experience, and that would reach the correct age of 39.
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2020-06-10 Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)'s account as blocked after a celebration of Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (六四事件), which was attended by many people from China. The account was later reinstated, Zoom said it acted on a CCP request on error, and it won’t do this for users outside of China anymore:
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/zoom-says-china-demanded-shutting-activists-accounts-over-tiananmen-event-idUSKBN23I3GP "U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts"
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https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html "Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist 'to comply with local law'".
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DM3ccTe70yzqCDPu9uXlCD7WmfJq-yzvKdKBH0oppc/edit
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