Incident 424: Universities' AI Proctoring Tools Allegedly Failed Canada's Legal Threshold for Consent
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Academic surveillance can be considered as an emerging field of “capitalism surveillance” (Zuboff) pertaining to the dominance of a few companies in the surveillance field. Online proctoring software represent a variety of tools often based…
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Organization
University of Ottawa
Published
2022
Project leader(s)
Céline Castets-Renard, Professor, Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section, University of Ottawa
Summary
This project examines how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities…
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Online proctoring tools for conducting remote exams do not go far enough to ensure free, clear and individual consent from Canadian students whose biometric data they collect, according to a new report published by the University of Ottawa …
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Online proctoring biometrics for remote exams fails to meet Canada's legal threshold of consent, privacy, and anti-discrimination, according to a new academic report from the University of Ottawa with the support of the Office of the Privac…