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Zoom employee shut down video conferences over Tiananmen Square, helped the Chinese government track dissidents and their family members
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Zoom employee shut down video conferences over Tiananmen Square, helped the Chinese government track dissidents and their family members

Xinjiang Jin, a Zoom employee is accused of helping to terminate at least four video meetings over Tiananmen Square in May and June, hosted by people based in the US.Jin was responsible for monitoring Zoom for China's governmentHe created fake email accounts of the political dissidents and claimed the users were violating terms of service agreementsJin would provide the government with information about users and meetings, names, email addresses, and even IP addresses.The Chinese authorities either detained users who were visiting the country or threatened their family members to tell the users to stop speaking out against the Communist Party.   A Zoom executive based in China has been charged by the US prosecutors over sabotaging virtual video conferences commemorating the 1989 Tianan...