Zoom CEO Eric Yuan

Three US lawmakers have asked Zoom Video Communications to clarify its data-collection practices and relationship with the Chinese government after the firm said it had suspended user accounts to meet demands from Beijing.

The California-based firm has come under heavy scrutiny after three US and Hong Kong-based activists said their accounts had been suspended and meetings disrupted after they tried to hold events related to the anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.

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“We did not provide any user information or meeting content to the Chinese government,” Zoom said in a statement.

Zoom founder Yuan grew up and attended university in China before migrating to the US in the mid-1990s.

US-based Humanitarian China founder Zhou Fengsuo said he welcomed Zoom’s acknowledgement of the suspensions but said it was unacceptable for the company “to separate China users from the rest of the world”.