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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back! linkletter.org/update-33-the…
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Former UBC employee and exam monitoring software company settle lawsuit theglobeandmail.com/canada/e…
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“Using copyright claims to retaliate against critics is wrong, and it chills public debate about surveillance technology,” EFF’s @JoeMullin told @ArsTechnica. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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Proctorio settles curious lawsuit with librarian who shared public YouTube videos arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
Schools pay Proctorio hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. This money helps fund a five year million dollar lawsuit against me for daring to criticize them. Meanwhile, their competitors are earning tens, even hundreds of millions simply by not being Proctorio.
Want to avoid getting sued by Proctorio? Don't do business with them. Proctorio *only* sues their customers.
Proctorio is still suing me. It's been 1,863 days. I estimate it costs them something like $1000 a day, but might be wrong.
The only proctoring company that has ever sued its own customers is Proctorio. You'd be safer with anyone else. Read what Proctorio did to Miami University student Erik Johnson. Out of all the proctoring companies, Proctorio is the litigious one. eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ef…
The best way to avoid being sued by Proctorio is to not do business with them. They only sue students and staff from their institutional customers. Proctorio has never sued a non-customer.
Protect your students and staff by refusing to give Proctorio your business.
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Here's the join investigation of TikTok by the @PrivacyPrivee, the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec, the @BCInfoPrivacy, and the @ABoipc: priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-an…
They put in the newspaper that I got mad. My life is a dril meme.
wapo.st/41ZvUmf
It was my pleasure to talk to @geoffreyfowler for this article.
Column: Google’s “homework help” is here, but teachers say it enables AI cheating. wapo.st/4pJNGEi
Proctorio claims to be able to detect smart glasses, but it can't even see human faces.
Proctorio now claims to be able to detect the use of "smart glasses".
Recent research shows that Proctorio's software has a higher "failure to detect" rate for people with darker skin tones, people with head coverings, and people with glasses.
racismandtechnology.center/w…
Proctorio now claims to be able to detect the use of "smart glasses".
Recent research shows that Proctorio's software has a higher "failure to detect" rate for people with darker skin tones, people with head coverings, and people with glasses.
racismandtechnology.center/w…
I needed to edit linkletter.org this week.
Proctorio will drag this out as long as they can. I was 36 when I was sued, now I'm 41. One day I will be free from this meritless lawsuit, but until that day I have the pro bono legal counsel needed to sustain the fight.
ALT My name is Ian Linkletter, I'm a librarian from Vancouver, BC. On September 2nd, 2020, I was sued for copyright infringement by Proctorio, Incorporated because I cited and linked to their own YouTube videos in 7 critical tweets. This website compiles my statements and updates related to Proctorio's lawsuit, which has continued now for over five years ("over" is highlighted to emphasize an edit).
Hat-tip to Hans de Zwart of the Racism and Technology Center.
Setting the record straight: Scientists show that the algorithm that Proctorio used is incredibly biased towards people with a darker skin colour racismandtechnology.center/2…
Hat-tip to Hans de Zwart of the Racism and Technology Center.
Setting the record straight: Scientists show that the algorithm that Proctorio used is incredibly biased towards people with a darker skin colour racismandtechnology.center/2…
New research confirms that OpenCV, the open source facial detection software used by Proctorio, is racially biased.
Lucy Satheesan was right! Proctorio is wrong.
Link: racismandtechnology.center/w…
ALT Excerpt from abstract: "Failure rates increased from just 0.28% for subjects with the lightest skin in our sample to 24.34% for subjects with the darkest, controlling for other factors". Full text is over 1000 characters and is available at the link.
New research confirms that OpenCV, the open source facial detection software used by Proctorio, is racially biased.
Lucy Satheesan was right! Proctorio is wrong.
Link: racismandtechnology.center/w…
ALT Excerpt from abstract: "Failure rates increased from just 0.28% for subjects with the lightest skin in our sample to 24.34% for subjects with the darkest, controlling for other factors". Full text is over 1000 characters and is available at the link.
"AI detection tools including the one available in Turnitin have been found to be unreliable in university contexts, often producing false positives or negatives or easily being subverted." - University of Cape Town
news.uct.ac.za/article/-2025…
