Incident 424: Universities' AI Proctoring Tools Allegedly Failed Canada's Legal Threshold for Consent

Description: AI proctoring tools for remote exams were reportedly "not conducive" to individual consent for Canadian students whose biometric data was collected during universities' use of remote proctoring in the COVID pandemic.

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Alleged: Respondus Monitor , ProctorU , ProctorTrack , Proctorio , ProctorExam and Examity developed an AI system deployed by Canadian universities, which harmed Canadian students.

Incident Stats

Incident ID

424

Report Count

Incident Date

2020-03-09

Editors

Khoa Lam

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Online Test Proctoring Software and Social Control: Is the Legal Framework for Personal Information and AI Protective Enough in Canada?

papers.ssrn.com

Online exam proctoring software during the pandemic: The quest to minimize student privacy risks

priv.gc.ca

Online proctoring biometrics use fails to meet Canadian legal threshold, report says

biometricupdate.com

Online proctoring biometrics fails to meet Canada's legal threshold of consent: report

canadianlawyermag.com

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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