A Zoom employee based in China aided Chinese censors in spying on Chinese dissidents in the U.S. and shutting down virtual meetings around the world for violating Chinese law, according to federal prosecutors.
The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it had charged a China-based Zoom employee, known as Xinjiang Jin, with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification. Prosecutors claimed that Jin used his post as Zoom’s “security technical leader” in China to provide information on certain Zoom meetings and users to the Chinese state and fabricate violations of Zoom’s terms of service to shut down meetings.
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