'Students may also be prompted to do a “room scan” where they turn their computer camera 360 degrees to show that nobody else is in the room with them'
why are we treating teenagers like this? the only thing they are learning is that nobody involved here respects or trusts them.
For my latest @TeenVogue column, I wrote about how the remote proctoring softwares that many schools are using are an enormous invasion of student's privacy. Thread ⬇️
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if it were a medical device and not consumer, it would be mostly fine and I agree that it would be beneficial to mental health studies -- doesn't erase the potential issue with the data though, especially if insurance companies get involved
I don’t think this is the right way to approach mental wellness but my main concern is data privacy. Do you really want a company having access to every brainwave and emotion? At what cost?