Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
by reaperducer on Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:17PM
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It's a matter of time before all major video conferencing tools add these features or 3rd party plugins/hacks which enable it.
Apple demonstrated this in Facetime about a year ago, but I don't know what happened to it. I don't use Facetime, so I can't confirm it was ever implemented. But clearly it's on big tech's radar.
Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
by Abishek_Muthian on Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:22PM
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I see, thanks for sharing. I don't do any video calls either (or any real-time comm) I suspected that this feature might be already in some video conferencing software considering there seems to be a need gap for eye-correction features.
>And I tend to close my eyes a lot because it helps me visualize the problem
Nvidia has added eye-correction feature to it's Maxine platform(SDK with set of ML features for video conferencing) it can correct our eyes in real-time to show that we're looking at the camera even when we didn't. When I first saw it's demo the first thing which came to my mind was these proctoring tools[1]. It's a matter of time before all major video conferencing tools add these features or 3rd party plugins/hacks which enable it.
I'm not against these proctoring tools, Especially since there are not many options during lockdowns but considering what's at stake they deserve all the scrutiny they can get and if a company threatens with lawsuits for genuine criticisms it tells a lot about their business practice; Sadly this seems to be very common in the e-education sector(Checkout unicorns claiming to have placed 10 year old in Google after taking their 'coding' class and the retribution faced by activists for showcasing the lies).
[1]https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1381831802315177989