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04
Aug
2021

Zoom privacy encryption

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology, technology literacy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google/

With the pandemic boosting its videoconferencing business, Zoom more than quadrupled its annual revenue from $622.7 million to $2.7 billion in the 12 months ending January 31, 2021.

Zoombombings

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12
Feb
2021

The Zoom Gaze

categories: Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, instructional technology, online learning

https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/

In May 2020 the company removed the “unmute all” setting for hosts due to privacy concerns but now has brought it back as a nuanced “unmute with consent,” which allows a host to unmute an individual participant’s microphone at any time in any of the host’s meetings once given permission. But this framing of consent is problematic to say the least. Can you refuse if the host is your boss? What if they not only have authority over you but abusive intent?

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03
Jan
2021

US user data from zoom to China

categories: information literacy, media literacy

Zoom Shared US User Data With Beijing from r/news

https://www.ntd.com/zoom-shared-us-user-data-with-beijing_544087.html

Former Zoom executive Jin Xinjiang worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users outside of China. Court documents say this allowed Zoom to keep market access in China.

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09
Oct
2020

Beulr attending Zoom

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology

https://beulr.com/sign-in

Beulr is a bot that attends Zoom class on your behalf. Beulr will join your Zoom meetings through a web browser on the cloud, displaying your information. You can schedule weeks in advance, and tell the bot exactly when to arrive and when to leave.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/05/12/best-zoom-background/

13
Jun
2020

Zoom succumbs to Chinese authorities

categories: educational technology, instructional technology

After March 2020 reports about Zoom privacy issues, now Zoom acknowledges working with the Chinese government:

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Is Zoom Safe for Chinese Students?

Elizabeth Redden June 12, 2020

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/12/scholars-raise-concerns-about-using-zoom-teach-about-china

Unlike many other major tech platforms based in the U.S., Zoom, which is headquartered in California, has not been blocked by the Chinese government. Zoom said in a blog post that it is “developing technology over the next several days that will enable us to remove or block at the participant level based on geography” which will allow the company to “to comply with requests from local authorities when they determine activity on our platform is illegal within their borders; however, we will also be able to protect these conversations for participants outside of those borders where the activity is allowed.”

Zoom’s interference with the Tiananmen gatherings and its suspension of user accounts raised alarm among many in higher education, which increasingly depends on Zoom to operate courses remotely — including for students located within China’s borders.

Multiple scholars took to Twitter to express their worries

PEN America, a group that advocates for free expression, condemned Zoom for shuttering the activist’s account.

This is not the first time Zoom’s links to China have come under scrutiny. In April, the company admitted that some of its user data were “mistakenly” routed through China; in response, the company announced that users of paid Zoom accounts could opt out of having their data routed through data centers in China.

An April 3 report by scholars at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy said Zoom’s research and development operations in China could make the company susceptible “to pressure from Chinese authorities.”

Zoom, whose Chinese-born CEO is a U.S. citizen, said in its latest annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had more than 700 employees at its research and development centers in China as of Jan. 31. The SEC filing notes that Zoom has a “high concentration of research and development personnel in China, which could expose us to market scrutiny regarding the integrity of our solution or data security features.”

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Zoom Just Totally Caved In to China on Censorship from r/technology


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07
May
2020

Zoom into Jeopardy game

categories: Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, gamification, gaming, student-centered learning

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