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Make Zoom More Private
Sometimes we seem to forget that disasters and emergencies will always produce secondary and alternate events that will need our attention to protect ourselves.
Pandemics are no different. There is always a stratum of individuals who will do whatever they can to enrich themselves or cause as much mayhem as possible for no reason but that they can.
The current popularity of ZOOM is a ripe target for the picking.
The attached article from Mozilla will assist you in making sound choices on the setting to use for your ZOOM account.
Tips to Make Your Zoom Gatherings More Private
By Kaili Lambe | April 3, 2020 | Advocacy
Chances are you’ve received an invitation in recent weeks to join a virtual gathering using the Zoom platform. And as millions of people have started working, socializing and exercising on a platform originally intended as an enterprise tool, lots of questions about Zoom’s privacy and security have surfaced. Researchers have recently discovered privacy issues and deficiencies, but Zoom has been very responsive and worked to quickly resolve them.
While some privacy concerns relate to platform vulnerabilities, others are related to host and participant settings, so here are steps you can take – both as a host and a participant – to help protect your own privacy as well as that of others.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/tips-make-your-zoom-gatherings-more-private/
Stay alert.
Till next time
“Be Safe”