A petition was filed in the Supreme Court recently regarding the ban of video conferencing app Zoom. In the hearing of the case, the court has sought an answer from the central government in four weeks. Also, US-based Zoom Video Communication has been questioned for this. The petition filed in the court said that the Zoom app is a threat to national security and can lead to an increase in cyber attacks and cybercrime in India. Zoom also admitted that Indians’ data was leaked from its platform. In such a situation, the data of crores of Indians has been leaked so far. But still the Zoom app is not banned yet.
Lakhs of cases are pending in Supreme Court
However, the question is whether the Supreme Court is the way to ban an app and why there is no agency to investigate the privacy-violating app initially. In India, usually when an app becomes quite popular, then questions arise about its privacy violation. Then the case moves from the High Court to the Supreme Court, where there are already millions of cases that have been waiting for justice for years.
Is court the only way to ban Zoom App?
In November last year, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a report, according to that, about 59,867 cases are pending in the Indian Supreme Court. While 44.75 lakh other cases are pending in the High Court across the country. Not only this, but more than 3.14 lakh cases are also pending in the district court and its tributary courts.
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