Is your school forcing you to use #Zoom, #Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at https://u.fsf.org/311

EU-Mercosur Trade Deal: A Threat to Peasant Rights and Nature https://viacampesina.org/en/eu-mercosur-trade-deal-a-threat-to-peasant-rights-and-nature/ #AgroecologyandPeasants'Seeds #VideosandPodcasts(FTAs) #FreeTradeAgreements #FoodSovereignty #Peasants'Rights #8-Bogota(2023) #SouthAmerica #EUMercosur #Europe #Zoom

Delete Zoom Now! This platform is a total privacy disaster!

#News #TechNews #Zoom #China #privacy #cybersecurity #surveillance

https://youtu.be/nxYi26_qTOM

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#Zoom just* changed their terms and conditions to include using anyone's video and audio for training #AI with no option for opting out. You too can help train #deepfake s!

Living with a disabled spouse, I used Zoom a lot to get through the ongoing global pandemic.

What alternatives are out there for remote teaching/meetings?

[* Evidently changed by the March 31, 2023 terms of service, but I didn't notice until yesterday.]
[Citation: Paragraph 10.4 of US terms of service here: https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/ ]
[Thank you for all the suggestions! I had to mute the conversation because of the overwhelming replies!]

If your educational institution is still using #Zoom, especially in light of their policy change to use/sell your content to train #LargeLanguageModels (#LLMs), it's doing the wrong thing. Digitally literate institutions (a rare & precious thing) already use #BigBlueButton (#BBB) which is #LibreSoftware & substantially better for educational applications. If you want to trial it, talk to us - we've been making our instances available for institutions to use since Covid: https://oer4covid.oeru.org

Zoom is a horrifying company with a long history of causing mayhem and exposing their users to different types of extreme risks, from serving Israel (denying Palestine groups use of Zoom) to installing a web server on Macs that had Zoom installed (which *Apple* had to remove).

Now, they've updated their terms of service to allow training of AI on user content; one can't opt out of this.

Don't user Zoom. Use Jitsi Meet or Matrix or other stable, free, and open-sourced solutions.

Zoom Terms of Service: https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

#zoom #SurveillanceCapitalism

#PLEASE PLEASE, #schools and #faculty, stop "teaching" #Adobe #Photoshop, #GoogleDocs, #Microsoft #Windows, #Zoom, and other commercial software applications.

You're not providing #students an #education, your providing companies customers.

We never taught Smith-Corona, or Turbo TS40, or Ford Tempo. We taught, respectively, typing, wood shop, and student driving. We should teach word processing, computer technology, and communications.

#K12 #Teaching #HigherEd #EdTech
#ScreemingInTheDark

Una serie di quattro falle di sicurezza nel popolare servizio di videoconferenza #Zoom potrebbe essere sfruttata per compromettere un altro utente tramite chat inviando messaggi #XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) appositamente predisposti.
Di Pierluigi #Paganini su #securityaffairs
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/131654/hacking/zoom-vulnerabilities.html