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.

  • 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.