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

      yeah, they also make you hold up ID to the camera. if it flags you as "suspicious" for whatever bullshit reason it'll make you scan your entire room with the camera

      edit: here's a good thread about it, https://twitter.com/ejohnson99/status/1303121786637373443 essentially their claims about security/privacy are complete bullshit

    • ancom20 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yes. It's the automated one. For me it was free to use, versus paying someone to proctor in-person or to pay a proctor to do a live proctoring (with the same thing) online.

      Here is their list of permissions. And it's proprietary software. https://blog.proctorio.com/why-proctorio-requests-certain-browser-permissions/

      • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        hey there's a matrix room about libre software and privacy on the chapo.chat matrix server, dm me if you want to join.

        • ancom20 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Thank you for the invite! Unfortunately, I don't have too much time right now, but perhaps sometime in the future.