Zoom is getting end-to-end encryption next week — but you’ll have to turn it on manually

In June, after relentless pressure from privacy advocates, Zoom said that it’ll extend end-to-end encryption to free users of its video conferencing service, beyond its previous limit to only paying customers. Now, the company is set to roll it out starting next week, but just as a preview with certain limitations. To be clear, Zoom‘s meetings were protected by AES 256-bit GCM encryption. So, your text, video, and audio were safe from snooping while in transit. However, these encryption keys were generated on Zoom‘s servers, and attackers could target it to snoop on users. On the other hand, if a meeting has end-to-end encryption protection, only…

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