Suggestions for Maintaining Anonymity at Zoom Meetings
These guidelines have been borrowed from the Inter-Group Association of A.A. of New York and adapted for use by the Greater Chicago/Milwaukee SLAA Intergroup.
With the rush to shift to online meetings, many of us did not take time to investigate what this meant to the spiritual foundation of our recovery — namely, anonymity. Now that online meetings are accessible, we want to pass on best practices for protecting anonymity.
The default Zoom settings run counter to SLAA’s spiritual foundation of anonymity. The meetings are publicly accessible and full names and faces are often displayed. Additionally, by default all Zoom meetings are recorded to the cloud. Fortunately, turning that feature off is simple.
Meeting Participants
How to maintain my anonymity as a Zoom Meeting participant
Meeting Chairs
Here are some suggested settings for your meeting to use. Please note that most, if not all, of the settings below are not the Zoom default:
Go to Settings > Meeting
Enable “Require Encryption for Third Party Endpoints”
Disable “Auto saving chats”
Disable “File transfer”
Disable “Feedback to Zoom”
Disable “Screen sharing”
Enable “Disable desktop/screen share for users”
Disable “Remote control”
Enable “Virtual background”
This is the Zoom default and allows the user to use a virtual background instead of the inside of their apartment, for example.
Go to Settings > Recording
Disable “Local recording”
Disable “Cloud recording”
Disable “Automatic recording”
If you have questions or suggestions, contact Intergroup at mailroom@slaachicago.org.