Data Protection and Student Records
What proctoring collects, on what basis it may be processed, and the questions an institution should be able to answer before deploying it.
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Legal obligations
Systematic monitoring of people in their homes sits toward the higher end of regulatory attention in most regimes.
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Biometrics
Face matching and behavioural biometrics carry a higher legal bar than ordinary personal data, and the justification has to be specific to the purpose.
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Accessibility Obligations
The duty to adjust applies to the monitoring as well as to the assessment, and most institutions have adjusted only one of them.
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Minors and Under-18 Learners
Where the candidate is a child, the calculation changes: consent, safeguarding and the recording of a child's bedroom are different questions.
Analysis
Cross-Border and Distance Cohorts
Students sitting exams in other countries bring other countries' rules with them, and the institution inherits all of them.
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