Others simply report being annoyed and intimidated by the sense, even in the Zoom era, that they’re being spied on. Thera Boonyamarn, a 20-year-old UCLA student and allergy sufferer who, when
her campus closed, flew home to Thailand, said every time she sneezed into a Kleenex, the testing software would “flag” her for seeming to look away while holding something that looked like paper.