This was shared with me over Twitter and is worth passing along. In a nutshell, as the headline says, an exam proctoring company, Proctorio, launched a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter (@Linkletter) (Slides), a learning technology specialist at UBC, for "by posting on Twitter links to seven videos meant only for administrators and instructor," alleging that if the information on videos becomes publicly known, "students could change their behaviour or adopt strategies to circumvent the software, giving them an unfair testing advantage over other students." I don't know what legal leap of logic makes that a basis for a lawsuit, but there it is.
It's not surprising that the plaintiff is Proctorio, because as Linkletter says, the company has been "very litigious" and had been aggressive in taking on critics, something I've seen for myself. In fact, it was Linkletter himself who called out Proctorio's CEO posting a student's tech support chat transcript on a public forum (we covered this here). Proctorio itself has been very unpopular - petitioned against by students at CUNY, campaigned against it by students at McGill, sued (unsuccessfully) by students in Amsterdam, despised by students at UBC, criticized in Australia. More.
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