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Due to the forced transition to a remote learning format, many students had to use applications to control their exams.
This was not met with any enthusiasm by college and university students - some believe that under the pretext of control, they were being forced to install a "spyware" on their devices.
For the first time, this problem was addressed by the EFF organization, which specializes in the protection of users' rights in the digital environment. According to human rights activists, students perceive the forced introduction of tools for remote monitoring as a privacy violation. The most common applications that students used were Proctorio and ProctorU.
Petitions demanding an immediate end to online control are signed by students from many countries - the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom. Students from Australia complain that the universities "crossed the line" when they forced them to install the Proctorio application. It was outraged that Proctorio was asked to install on stationary home PCs rather than on university-issued computers.
Miami students described control methods as restrictive since the applications used can define a person's behaviour as "suspicious", even if he or she is suffering from excessive activity or just has an attention deficit disorder.
According to students from California, tracking keystrokes and gaining access to computers' cameras is not acceptable. The same applies to the use of artificial intelligence technologies, which determine whether a person is "suspicious".
