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Remote proctoring companies like Proctorio, ProctorU, and ExamSoft collect all manner of private data on students and test takers, from biometric information to citizenship status to video and audio of a user’s surroundings. During the pandemic there has been a 500% increase in the usage of these proctoring tools—in 2020, more than half of higher education institutions used remote proctoring services and another 23% were considering doing so. At this point, remote proctoring services are a given for many students. But despite their rocketing use–and data breaches, and concern from federal lawmakers and California’s Supreme Court, no meaningful data protections have been put into place to protect the privacy of test takers.
Too many schools across the state continue to use remote proctoring at its most invasive settings.
California’s Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act (STTPPA) will correct this. It is put forward by Senator Dr. Richard Pan (S.B. 1172) and sponsored by EFF and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
The TTPPA directs proctoring companies to follow reasonable data minimization practices, meaning they cannot collect, use, retain, or disclos
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