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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by _fat_santa on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:00PM (#26905795)
The bigger problem I see is professors that think "Oh well it's sophisticated AI, it can't make a mistake" and take the results for granted.

In one of the twitter thread I saw a screenshot form a professors email where they were mentioning that "X student had 100 more eye movements than Y student" and threatened to fail the entire class.

That email blew my mind because it seemed like the professor just didn't know or didn't care that the software was the problem here. And that's the real issue.

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by professoretc on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:45PM (#26906490)
If the email mentioned particular students by name then that in and of itself is a violation (at least in California). We're absolutely not supposed to share any student performance information with anyone other than the student, without permission.
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by redwall_hp on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:00PM (#26906732)
That's federal. FERPA.
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