My university is using a couple of programs to ensure no cheating on exams. While I am all for preventing cheating, I'd rather other people cheat at this point. The one program, you have to show your entire surroundings, understandable. It also tracks your location, IP address, it can detect the difference between your voice vs. other people's voices, your face vs others, all computer processes, etc. It can even detect eye movements and movements that could be considered "cheating". Now in Alberta, we have a couple privacy acts protecting us against this, but there is apparently "implied consent" with all of this, and yeah I can understand that, on a legal level. In practice, I don't feel like I was completely informed before paying my non-refundable tuition.
I know there aren't many options that are viable, but I'm so uncomfortable with this. I feel like this is opening a can of worms that should stay shut. I can't even feel safe in my own home because there is always that underlying thought of, am I going to be accused of cheating (this happened a lot during lockdown. Hundreds of students were falsely accused and many had to hire legal help fight allegations, including one of my friends who almost has his entire educational career ruined). Will the university still be able to track my movements on my device, even when the program isn't running? Can they access private information on my device? I don't know, probably not. I doubt they would want to anyway. But still, I'm careful with even putting my last name online because of possible implications. Again legally, I understand I "consented", but I don't feel that way.
TLDR: Does anyone else feel like AI exam software is a massive violation of privacy?
Submitted September 26, 2020 at 09:51AM by Smiggos https://ift.tt/3i6gy5w
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