Zoom Says Subpoena Is Needed to Work with Law Enforcement

Zoom Video Communications Inc. Chief Financial Officer Kelly Steckelberg said the virtual-meeting provider needs a subpoena to work with police, seeking to assuage users concerned about the privacy implications of cooperation with law enforcement.

Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan said Tuesday that Zoom wouldn’t offer the strongest level of encryption to free users so the company could aid the FBI and local police. What he meant “is when there are situations where law enforcement is looking into unfortunate situations such as potentially child abuse that we do comply with subpoenas and we do want to support those types of investigations,” Steckelberg said Friday in a Bloomberg Television interview.