Not entirely true. While Zoom as a company is not answerable to the Chinese government, the developers are. Given that we have such horrible laws even in the "

Not entirely true. While Zoom as a company is not answerable to the Chinese government, the developers are. Given that we have such horrible laws even in the "more democratic" parts of the world, such as Australia [1], it is not unthinkable that the Chinese government may ask a Chinese developer to install a backdoor to a foreign based product they are working on: [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46463029 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46463029 > The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said police could order individual IT developers to create technical functions without their company's knowledge.