School leaders in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas say they're discontinuing their use of Zoom for distance learning because of security, privacy and harassment concerns.
In a statement to NPR, Zoom referred educators to anand said it had updated the default settings for its education-based users to give more control to teachers and other meeting hosts.
For students, parents and teachers, the abandonment of Zoom means once again having to learn the ins and outs of a new videoconferencing system. Some are asking whether itand simply use the privacy and security controls that were always available.
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