The Next Web:

After mounting pressure from privacy activists and users, Zoom said today that it’ll provide end-to-end encryption protection to everyone — including free users.

Earlier this month, the company had said that it’ll provide this feature to only paid users to comply with law enforcement and catch abusers of the service. After its announcements, several privacy experts wrote to zoom about enabling this feature for all users.

Yesterday, Mozilla foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 19,000 other users sent an open letter to the company, urging it not to make “security and privacy a luxury.” In another letter, digital rights organizations such as Fight for the future and MPower Change conveyed similar concerns.

Yet another example of a company having two options – the “right” thing and the “wrong” thing – knowing what the “right” thing to do is, and still choosing the “wrong” thing only to be forced by public pressure to backtrack and do the “right” thing after all.