It’s amazing how much slavery you can impose in the guise of ‘safety’ and ‘justice’. In the last few years humanity has given away its birthright for a mess of digital pottage. And we want seconds.
Proctorio is one of the most prominent software platforms that colleges and universities use to watch for cheating on remote tests. It uses what its website describes as “machine learning and advanced facial detection technologies” to record students through their webcams while they work on their exams and monitor the position of their heads. The software flags “suspicious signs” to professors, who can review its recordings. The platform also enables professors to track the websites students visit during their exams, and bar them from functions like copy / pasting and printing.