The changes come after a report found that zoom generated encryption keys for some calls from servers in China, even if none of the people on the call were physically located in the country.

Zoom says paying customers will be able to opt in or out of a specific data center region. You wo n’t have to opt out of your default region.

Users on the company’s free tier ca n’t change their default data center region. Any of those outside of China wo n’t have their data routed through China.

On April 3rd, citizen lab published a report detailing how zoom’s encryption scheme sometimes used keys generated by servers in China. That could mean, in theory, that Chinese officials could demand zoom disclose those encryption keys to the government.

Zoom CEO Eric yuan said that in the rush to add server capacity to meet the massive need for zoom during the covid-19 pandemic,’we failed to fully implement our usual geo-fencing best practices’.