{"id":6831,"date":"2022-08-26T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/im-afraid-critics-of-anti-cheating-technology-for-students-hit-by-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T09:39:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:39:01","slug":"im-afraid-critics-of-anti-cheating-technology-for-students-hit-by-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/im-afraid-critics-of-anti-cheating-technology-for-students-hit-by-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m afraid\u2019: critics of anti-cheating technology for students hit by lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

New technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, raise anxiety and be discriminatory<\/p>\n

In 2020, a Canadian university employee named Ian Linkletter became increasingly alarmed by a new kind of technology that was exploding in use with the pandemic. It was meant to detect cheating by college and high-school students taking tests at home, and claimed to work by watching students\u2019 movements and analyzing sounds around them through their webcams and microphones to automatically flag suspicious behavior.<\/p>\n

So Linkletter<\/a> accessed a section of the website of one of the anti-cheating companies, named Proctorio<\/a>, intended only for instructors and administrators. He shared what he found on social media.<\/p>\n

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\nNew technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, raise anxiety and be discriminatory
\nIn 2020, a Canadian university employee named Ian Linkletter became increasingly alarmed by a new kind of technology that was exploding in use with the pandemic. It was meant to detect cheating by college and high-school students taking tests at home, and claimed to work by watching students\u2019 movements and analyzing sounds around them through their webcams and microphones to automatically flag suspicious behavior.
\nSo Linkletter accessed a section of the website of one of the anti-cheating companies, named Proctorio, intended only for instructors and administrators. He shared what he found on social media. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, raise anxiety and be discriminatory In 2020, a Canadian university employee named Ian Linkletter became increasingly alarmed by a new kind of technology that was exploding in use with the pandemic. It was meant to detect cheating by college and …<\/p>\n

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