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New Delhi: The Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord), under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has issued an advisory on secure use of ZOOM Meeting Platform by private individuals. This advisory states that the platform is not for use by Government officers/officials for official purposes. 

The document makes reference to earlier advisories of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-IN) and states that Zoom is not a safe platform. The guidelines have been issued to safeguard private individuals who would still like to use the platform for private purposes. 

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The broad objective of this advisory is to prevent any unauthorised entry into a Zoom Conference Room and prevent the unauthorised participant to carry out malicious attacks on the terminals of other users in the conference. 

MHA issued advisory for the people using ZOOM in their personal capacity:

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GoaChronicle had raised serious concerns over the use of ZOOM application in its expose:

Is Zoom Teleconferencing Safe or a Spy Tool for China?

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