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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 5 days ago • 198 comments

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

A photo I took of @edyong209.bsky.social at XOXO is in New York Times Magazine! I’m very proud. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Proctorio has an "Acceptable Use Policy" that requires faculty to agree not to harm students or violate their privacy. But Proctorio ITSELF is a harmful invasion of privacy! Are faculty liable for Proctorio? Will Proctorio sue them, as they have staff and students?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

How's this for an Ethical Software Agreement: pledge.againstsurveillance.net

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Proctorio now requires professors to accept an "Ethical Software Agreement" before accessing video surveillance and automated decisions for the first time. Now would be a good time to stop being a Proctorio professor. They sue people, you know.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It has been 1,619 days since Proctorio sued me for linking to 7 unlisted YouTube videos. I estimate their legal bills to be about a million dollars so far.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

“…ByteDance would retain a minority stake in the company, but the app's algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle, which already provides the foundation of TikTok's web infrastructure.”

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

Proctorio commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by linking to a blog post called "Setting the Record Straight: On Civil Rights Violations". Nowhere in the post do they address that Proctorio judges students by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Is the PowerSchool breach the worst in ed tech history? 50 million K-12 students and their teachers had all their information stolen. techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/p...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I have 29 reference desk shifts this term 😀

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Ohio now has an anti-SLAPP law! Proctorio sued an Ohioan student in 2021. www.ifs.org/news/ohio-jo...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

oh shit new logo just dropped

submitted 51 days ago • 51 comments

When a company like Proctorio makes their product more invasive, it is an admission that their product was not effective before.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

“In the struggle to stuff the genie back in the bottle, universities have become locked in an escalating technological arms race, even turning to AI themselves to try to catch misconduct. Tutors are turning on students, students on each other and hardworking learners are being caught by the flak.”

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Please help me raise awareness of Proctorio's harms! Don't let them intimidate you.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Have you paid attention to all the controversy of "Microsoft Recall", which records your screen and uses AI to flag certain things? Proctorio is doing that to 5 million students per week, and nobody is doing anything about it. How can we stand up for students? They are asking for help!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Please, is there a journalist out there who will look into Proctorio's new AI surveillance features? It's on their LinkedIn. Proctorio is an automated decision system and they will now be inputting "keyword detection and web traffic data" into a black box to decide what is suspicious. It's obscene!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

"AI Detection Using keyword detection and web traffic data, Proctorio can now flag the use of smart devices and web-based AI tools by test-takers." Proctorio is policing keystrokes and web traffic now. Proctorio is using automated decision making on screen surveillance. This is a far worse future.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Guess what? The same day I wrote this, Proctorio launched its "AI assistance detected in browser" feature, applying automated decision making directly to screen surveillance for the first time. Every time the "Rewrite with Copilot" popup appears, Proctorio will probably flag it. They'll flag Alt+I.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Proctorio just added new functionality to make AI proctoring even more invasive. There's a companion app students can be forced to install on their phones. They've added AI detection. They've added more video surveillance flags. They've added more browser flags. It's obscene! 💩

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

"In the education sector, AI facial recognition used for exam proctoring during the COVID-19 pandemic failed to accurately identify darker-skinned students, which led to increased stress and unfair testing conditions for them." policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/de...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Microsoft added an Alt+I shortcut for Edge's Rewrite with Copilot feature, making it even less detectable by AI proctoring. You are not going to catch students typing Alt+I without going way further with AI surveillance. At the very least we should reconsider our use of Edge as a campus default.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

If it doesn't work, don't call it a tool. AI proctoring is an automated decision system and it doesn't work the same for everyone. Racially biased facial detection algorithms cause harm and prevent access to exams. It doesn't make tests "accessible" it makes them inaccessible and creates barriers.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

AI as brain rot 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-robots-h...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

If we're going to make sure school means something we're going to have to do better than trying to police ChatGPT use under the guise of "academic integrity." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

"All energy put into detection and policing is energy not going into teaching and learning. Surveillance tech like Proctorio primarily serves as a way to frighten and distract students as they’re attempting to demonstrate their knowledge." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is wildly dismissive of scholars, activists, and journalists whose critiques go well beyond “it sucks and it’s fake.” Moreso, substantive critiques about it sucking often point out not that it’s “fake” but that it’s used for tasks it’s not suited for to the detriment of people it’s used against

submitted 84 days ago • 35 comments

Students said online that surveillance software couldn't "see" them and made them feel creeped out. The surveillance company's response? Send a camera crew to ASU's campus to record students saying they like surveillance, actually.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

This OEB 2024 recap notes that Proctorio was not there this year. This is noteworthy because OEB previously had a high-profile keynote speaker withdraw from their talk because of Proctorio's presence. onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/oeb-2024-c...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Proctorio has been suing me for 1,555 days. Don’t make the same mistake as UBC. Before partnering with any company, ensure they don’t have a history of suing those you are responsible for protecting. No other company in this industry sues critics. You can’t do worse than Proctorio.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Privacy International @privacyint.bsky.social submitted a report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism. They blew the whistle on Proctorio's facial detection algorithm and its harms. #Proctorio privacyinternational.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

"Today's AI is the worst AI you will ever use" is a false statement. www.theverge.com/2024/12/2/24...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The first Canadian copyright lawsuit against OpenAI has been filed. This is the second lawsuit against an AI company, following CanLII vs. Caseway AI filed last month. Michael Geist's coverage is essential: www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/12/cana...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite part of Bluesky is that there is no Proctorio.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

"The design of some online tools such as the proctoring software Proctorio, dehumanizes some racialized students. Proctorio is often unable to see students of colour as living beings." Link to October 2024 University of Manitoba Senate Agenda discussing Proctorio: umanitoba.ca/governance/s...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

"Students of color have reported having difficulties getting remote camera proctoring software such as Proctorio to “see” them regardless of how well-lit their room is. Black women, in particular, are at greater risk of being falsely accused of cheating by these automated tools."

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I'm leading a Mattermost pilot for a big community that is moving off Slack. It was estimated that paying for Slack (necessary to keep messages longer than 90 days) would cost nearly $10,000 per month. I am hosting Mattermost on Reclaim Cloud for $0.59 per day. Open technology makes sense.

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

In 2020, Proctorio told a group of Senators they were "aware of fewer than five complaints in which there was any suggestion from the complaining party that they experienced a face detection or gaze detection issue due to race". Millions of users later, what's the number now?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Every second of an exam, Proctorio decides whether or not something "abnormal" has occurred. Proctorio decides the "Suspicion Level" of each student, setting the stage for unconscious bias to become unlawful discrimination. Automated decisions cause harm. Proctorio is an automated decision system.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments