One of Germany’s staunchest data regulators has warned local government departments to stop using Zoom because it believes the videoconferencing app is incompatible with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In a statement Monday, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) formally warned the city’s Senate Chancellery against using the on-demand version of Zoom’s videoconferencing software because the company transfers users’ data to the United States for processing.

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Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...