The benign-sounding term refers to the malevolent cyberharassment of people using the video-conferencing app Zoom. The poor security situation should give Ontario’s Ministry of Education pause while considering what software to use for emergency distance learning to ensure that digital space doesn’t become a place of new trauma. At that point activist-journalist Desmond Cole, who was another panellist in the session, suggested they shut it down, he said. announced it had secured licences with Zoom to enable remote learning for its public and private schools. Two days prior, in the U.S, the FBI Boston field office warned of hijackers in Zoom class sessions in two Massachusetts-based high schools.

Source: thestar April 03, 2020 22:18 UTC