Some students also said they’ve wept with stress or urinated at their desks because they were forbidden from leaving their screens. Some students have even tried to take the software down from the inside, digging through the code for details on how it monitors millions of high-stakes exams. And how important are any of these tests, really, given the extra stress on students whose lives have already been turned inside out? Thousands of college students have signed petitions to cancel online-proctor deals in California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington state. Students also have pointed to the companies’ troves of personal video data as a major vulnerability for cyberattack.

Source: Washington Post November 12, 2020 14:15 UTC