Secondary students planning protest to stop Hong Kong schools using Zoom app for online teaching

Concerns over data security, hacking spur call for alternative methods of online teaching. ‘Non-cooperation action’ will see students switching off webcams, adding protest slogans. — SCMP

Hundreds of students from at least 90 secondary schools are planning a protest this week against the use of videoconferencing platform Zoom for online lessons, citing privacy concerns.

They intend to turn off the webcam function during live-streamed lessons and change their profile pictures to show slogans opposing Zoom, according to the student activist group Hong Kong Secondary Schools Student Strike Platform.