“I’ve despised using this software,” Bea, told Teen Vogue. “On one occasion, I was ‘flagged’ for movement and obscuring my eyes..."
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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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are you saying that companies will start incorporating this into remote work requirements for employees? is it too late to delete technology?

Oct 26, 2020 · 6:17 PM UTC

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>too late to delete technology It's always too late to delete technology. You gotta delete households so people will be afraid to implement the technology.
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They already are trying to, if the VC Funbucks "AI/ML Startups" that hit me up on Linkedin are any indication.
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oh come on, watch companies that issued out laptops start trying to use pre-enabled Computrace to spy on employees
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Already plenty of companies using “productivity tracking” software.
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In the office, most people don’t Actually Work the full 7.5/8 hours - they chat, get coffee, spend time walking between buildings etc. Why should you have to Actually Work more when you’re at home?
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Some already do - maybe not using apps but requiring people to be on camera all the time etc.
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It's been the case for Microsoft certification exams as long as I can remember, e.g. this from 2014. blogs.perficient.com/2014/12…

My Experience Taking a Microsoft Certification Exam …At Home / Blogs / Perficient

As an IT consultant, taking certification exams is a necessary task that most of us are quite familiar with. You can debate the value of the certifications or the ability of an exam to properly...

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of course they will. it's being prototyped on people who have no choice but to obey. it's only a matter of time before companies start doing it because they don't trust their work-from-home employees to be Actually Working for the 8 hours they put in
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What do your room surroundings have to do with remote working? Seems rather incongruent. What do they think you’re somehow going to cheat at working?
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