This article highlights how virtual student proctoring services trespass on students’ privacy and create conditions that encourage students to cheat. It focuses on the Honorlock corporation, whose product “promises to ensure that remote students don’t cheat on exams through AI-powered software used by students that ‘monitors each student’s exam session and alerts a live, US-based test proctor if it detects any potential problems.’ The software can scan students’ faces to verify their identity, track specific phrases that their computer microphone captures, and even promises to search for and remove test questions that leak online.” The article makes the case for rethinking how examinations are designed so that students are not under suspicion.

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