Stand Against Proctorio’s SLAPP!. Updates, judgments, and media coverage now at More to come.

Texas Tech University will no longer use Proctorio. Previously, my research about this school's use of Proctorio on K-12 students was profiled in The Guardian. These kids will now be safe from the harms of Proctorio. I feel a great weight has been lifted.

The maximum penalty for noncommercial copyright infringement in Canada is $5000. I estimate Proctorio has spent $1,000,000 in legal fees pursuing this ridiculous lawsuit for the past 5 years.

UBC's student newspaper, The Ubyssey (@Ubyssey), has always had the best Proctorio coverage. I made a webpage with links so you can see it all in one place.

“Turnitin did not respond to requests for comment for this article, but has said that its scores should not be used as the sole determinant of A.I. misuse.”. We determine - you decide. Got it?.

Proctorio's lawsuit is one of the greatest threats to academic freedom in Canada. It's a strategic lawsuit against fair dealing. Proctorio's objective is to weaponize the Copyright Act as a tool for censorship. This could happen to anyone.

It's been 1,686 days since Proctorio sued me, and they're still at it. Don't do business with bullies if you care about your staff and students.

Ohio State University is also switching from Proctorio to Honorlock (people don't like doing business with litigious bullies) and created a help page showing instructors how to remove Proctorio's hidden HTML. Really scummy to add all this hidden code.

University of Minnesota is preparing to stop using Proctorio and created a help page showing instructors how to turn it off in Canvas. Done harming students with academic surveillance? You can follow these steps too.

How's this for an Ethical Software Agreement?. “I will do everything in my power to obstruct, work against, and end academic surveillance technologies and their harm against students.”.

Many faculty associations have collective agreements which guarantee exclusive bargaining rights. Forced agreements outside the scope of the collective agreement are barred, and can be an infringement of academic freedom. Proctorio's new "Ethical Software Agreement" is a breach.

Proctorio now requires professors to accept an "Ethical Software Agreement" before accessing video surveillance and automated decisions for the first time. Now would be a good time to stop being a Proctorio professor. They sue people, you know.

It has been 1,619 days since Proctorio sued me for linking to 7 unlisted YouTube videos. I estimate their legal bills to be about a million dollars so far.

Setting the Record Straight: Proctorio is a Civil Rights Violation

Proctorio commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by linking to a blog post called "Setting the Record Straight: On Civil Rights Violations". Nowhere in the post do they address that Proctorio judges students by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character.

I just backed Cory's latest Marty Hench book on Kickstarter! I greatly enjoyed Red Team Blues and The Bezzle and am looking forward to learning what Marty got up to in the 1980s. All three audiobooks are read by Wil Wheaton and come DRM-free.

When a company like Proctorio makes their product more invasive, it is an admission that their product was not effective before.

"AI Detection: Using keyword detection and web traffic data, Proctorio can now flag the use of smart devices and web-based AI tools by test-takers." . Proctorio is policing keystrokes and web traffic now. Automated decision making on screen surveillance. This is a worse future.

Proctorio just added new functionality to make AI proctoring even more invasive. There's a companion app students can be forced to install on their phones. They've added AI detection. They've added more video surveillance flags. They've added more browser flags. It's obscene! 💩.