In response to the demand for online meetings during the epidemic, Google has previously announced on the Google Cloud blog that the advanced Hangouts Meet function, which can provide up to 250 participants to join the call, and can provide 100,000 viewers in the same domain to watch live broadcasts at the same time, will be open to all G Suite customers around the world. Interestingly, just as Zoom’s privacy concerns are spreading, Google has also made many actions at the same time. Continue reading Google issues Zoom ban to employees, Google Meet (renamed) takes advantage of the situation to debut. Text of the report.
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Google bans Zoom from employees, Google Meet (name changed) takes advantage of the situation
Faced with the global spread of the pneumonia epidemic, the work-from-home trend has emerged. The demand for online conferencing applications has suddenly increased sharply. However, after all, it is the demand of enterprises, and the requirements for information security naturally need to be treated at a higher standard than general video chat applications. Like the previously popular Zoom video chat service, just becausesecurity concernsRecently, I have been shut out by companies and governments at home and abroad. The latest company to explicitly prohibit employees from using Zoom is Google, which also has online video-related services.
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according toForeign media reports, Google has sent a letter to employees informing them that the Zoom app installed on existing devices that can be used for business will be disabled because the service does not meet the application security standards used by Google enterprise employees. However, this ban is limited to the public domain, and there is no restriction on the private part of Google (but it cannot be installed on company computers).
Interestingly, the Google Hangouts Meet video conferencing service, which, like Zoom, has been a very popular choice for online meetings recently, also made some policy changes at this time – in fact, it changed its name and became Google Meet. It seems that they want to take advantage of the huge increase in usage (a 25-fold increase compared to January) to break away from the classic old service Hangouts chat service and officially become an independent service in G Suite alongside Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive.
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existThe latest official Google Cloud announcementsin, except again To rub salt in the Zoom wound In addition to emphasizing how the Google Meet service ensures the security of video conferencing information, it also announced a new name change – although the names of the Taiwan page and the mobile app store have not changed yet, Google seems to have started to revise the names of several support pages overseas, and I believe you will see relevant changes soon.
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Source: KOCPC Chinese