“I’ve despised using this software,” Bea, told Teen Vogue. “On one occasion, I was ‘flagged’ for movement and obscuring my eyes..."
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 ⬇️ teenvogue.com/story/exam-sur…
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'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.

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Its a slippery slope, one idiot does something stupid then everyone has to pay
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fear not : it will come to an immediate halt when the school is informed that useful, real-world training is taking place
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Also, note the presumption that every child has a room to himself or herself.
I wonder, is there a solution that balances privacy with academic honesty?
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the worst part is that some lockdown browsers do not allow you to use remote desktop tools or virtual machines in the event that the students don't trust the school or the lockdown browser to not invade the fuck out of their privacy
You mean as opposed to locking them up in a room with invigilators pacing between them, scrutinizing the slightest movement of their head, or the slightest whisper?
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really advanced cheating doesn't start until ugrad anyway
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Normally I happily get into a shit fit about the privacy nonsense that the German government usually tries to push, as if there weren't more crucial issues at hand. Reading this I'm getting a new appreciation for the efforts maybe being more useful than I expected...
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i learned that in regular high school