Respect your remote learning Student’s Privacy

Concurrent Session 4

Brief Abstract

Invasive remote proctoring requirements like room scans have students suing for infringing their 4th Amendment rights, privacy violations, and racial/gender bias. Attend this session to find out how to avoid these serious complications while maintaining academic integrity.

Presenters

Lead Presenter: Jeff Maynard, Biometric Signature ID

Mr. Maynard first became involved with biometrics when he ran divisions for a publicly traded company that utilized biometrics in healthcare. Today he is the President/Founder/CEO of Biometric Signature ID. The company has developed several patented, biometric solutions that authenticate users by their unique biometric writing patterns. He is passionate about using his solutions to solve the issue of illegitimate user access attempts by creating the password of the future.

Extended Abstract

Students are getting serious about privacy violations, especially when using remote proctoring. We will talk about the issues of toxicity in the current remote proctoring environment, and the easy steps you can take to avoid these serious complications.

Currently, most remote proctoring uses a combination of using webcams usually recording document ID, a 360 scan of the test room, recording audio, taking face pictures, recording the session, taking over the student's PC, downloading software to use a secure browser, and maybe interrupt the student with live proctors. This level of invasiveness has students suing for infringing their 4th Amendment rights, privacy violations, and newfound racial/gender bias. It has also caused over 240,000 students to sign petitions to “Stop Use of Remote Proctoring” in over 226 colleges.

Some students are even suing their schools, privacy groups are threatening to sue, and a Senate investigation has asked five remote proctoring companies about these business practices.

Colleges also have to be concerned with accreditation mandates required to authenticate student ID throughout the course 602.17 (g) and to prove they are using privacy sparring technology 602.17 (h) from the Dept of Education effective 2021.

The choir is singing the same verse over and over “Do something about privacy” Ensure academic integrity while avoiding these privacy issues and petitions:
• Find out how this Student ID authentication cybersecurity “Blocks” family and friends from doing your student's work and tests.
• Using “Face Anonymization” to blur webcam faces to preserve students’ privacy
• How you can avoid all the privacy activating requirements from remote proctoring
• Using this technology will catch the invasion of “paid contract cheaters” in 3 easy steps

Let us talk about if current remote proctoring works to even catch cheaters. Compare our track record on what cheaters we catch and how? How this technology forensics caught a 42-state education cheating ring, why a top defense contractor uses this same technology and why we were called experts to the TX Senate Committee for advice on stopping BOTS from stealing FSA funds.

Three gift card prizes throughout the session!

Biometric Signature ID is a cybersecurity company with the right privacy sparring technology for blocking cheaters before they can get access to the exam/tests/assessment.