Singapore schools to resume use of Zoom for home-based learning with additional safeguards in place

SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Education has allowed schools to progressively resume the use of video-conferencing platform Zoom after having introduced three additional layers of defence.

Teachers were then told to stop using it for their home-based teaching and two police reports were made of the incident, MOE's divisional director for the educational technology division, Mr Aaron Loh, told The Straits Times on Monday .Security settings on the platform have been consolidated to the security button to make it easier for users to activate the settings.

Only after submitting this acknowledgement of compliance will a teacher be allowed to carry out"live" lessons on the platform.

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Goodness. Just because MOE worked with the American conferencing platform, and they just change a few features, they assume it’s safe?! When NASA, Google have banned it?

Stupid

Citing privacy and security concerns, Google has banned video meeting app Zoom for its employees.

Google just flat out banned Zoom. But apparently, MOE thinks they know better after a round of rushed patches and at most a few hours of testing (if any)?

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