A university student is suing exam proctoring software maker Proctorio to "quash a campaign of harassment" against critics of the company, including an accusation that the company misused copyright laws to remove his tweets that were critical of the software. From a report: The Electronic Frontier F...

Proctorio is an algorithmic ("AI") Internet based exam proctoring service. That is, it does not use a live person as proctor. It is also proprietary and retains student data. I had to use it while at university, it was rather unpleasant.

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    good, fuck that company. had to use their extension for school also, it's insane that it's even legal

    • ancom20 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I want to make them remove/delete any data they collected when I used their extension. Unfortunately, these companies often want more personal information than they already had when you put in a privacy request to remove your data.