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Video conferencing app Zoom has grown in popularity in recent times, with a number of corporate bodies employing it to keep in touch with employees. The conferencing app has however come under fire of recent due to a number of security concerns.
Reports making the rounds have pointed out that Zoom is taking more steps to make the space safer with system-wide security enhancements and Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) encryption. Users have been advised to update the app before the 30 th of May as GCM encryption will become compulsory for all meetings and will be enabled system-wide from that day.
Galois/Counter Mode encryption is an algorithm for authenticated encryption of data which provides assurance of genuineness of the confidential data. Zoom explained in a blog post that all its clients should be in version 5.0 or higher to be able to join any meeting. Support for enhanced GCM encryption was added with Zoom 5.0 sometime in April, with system-wide implementation set to take place from the 30 th of May.
From the 30 th of May, a new green encryption shield will be visible showing that enhanced GCM encryption is enabled. Some other features are expected with this new update, one of which is turning off call history by default.
With these new updates from Zoom, we hope that the earlier complaints that raised concerns regarding privacy will now be a thing of the past.
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Social media app Instagram rolled out a number of tools to help content creators make money off videos they post on the network. This update, released on Wednesday, will now let some users sell “badges” to their fans during live video broadcasts.
The app will also introduce IGTV, giving 55 percent of revenue to the creators of the videos. These updates will go through some early testing, with personalities like Eitan Bernath and Salice Rose selected to participate in this phase of testing.
Facebook introduced similar changes to its app in 2018 to help influencers capitalize on their growing fan bases. Instagram’s Chief Operating Officer, Justin Osofsky, said that the badges will be sold at three different price points, $0.99, $1.99 and $4.99. The company has also made it known that it will not receive a portion of sales from these badges when it launches.
Osofsky stated that Instagram has no plans yet to offer subscriptions for exclusive content. With the social media app gaining more relevance, it will be interesting to see how well these updates will serve users of the app-influencers and their followers- better and what it may evolve into in the coming days.
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