It's very difficult to be paranoid about corporate abuses of technology because every time you imagine an outlandish scenario it turns out that some company is doing it. And thus we turn to Proctorio, which would never abuse its powers to surveil students... right? Wrong. "That the CEO would post a partial transcript shows that: 1. staff at Proctorio do have access to the logs and transcripts of student behaviour, and 2. that they don't have the privacy protection protocols in place to prevent the private information from being leaked." It should go without saying that the Proctorio CEO's actions were profoundly disrespectful. Here's coverage from the Guardian about the incident.
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