Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers after “very serious incidents” in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.
One incident involved obscene images appearing on screens and strange men making lewd comments during the streaming of a geography lesson with teenage girls, media said.
Zoom Video Communications Inc has faced safety and privacy concerns over its conferencing app, use of which has surged in offices and schools worldwide after they shut to try and curb virus infections. “These are very serious incidents,” Aaron Loh of the education ministry’s technology division said on Friday, without giving details. “The Ministry of Education (MOE) is