John,
Textbook company McGraw-Hill has been under increasing pressure to end their relationship with the creepy and racist e-proctoring company, Proctorio.
We are organizing a Twitter day of action to call on them to do the right thing.
Can you send them a tweet today and spread the word?
If you don’t have a Twitter, please take action by sharing our e-proctoring petition instead.
Until we met with them in January, McGraw-Hill had been increasing the ways professors can surveil students—including making video surveillance part of doing homework every day. But now, they are considering their relationship based on the concerns of privacy, racial justice, and human rights organizations. The time to up the pressure is now.
TAKE ACTION
Proctorio and their creepy CEO spent 2020 behaving like digital supervillains. They’re suing privacy specialists, intimidating students, and posting private student info on Reddit. They’ve abused Twitter’s DMCA takedown process to remove critical tweets, all while their software has been denying students of color and disabled students equitable access to tests. And those are just the bad things we know about—where there’s smoke, there’s fire. McGraw-Hill must stop propping up this unethical company. 1 2 3 4 5
McGraw-Hill taking a stand as an industry leader and saying no to invasive proctoring would send an important message: invasive, ableist, racist e-proctoring is unacceptable.
Please spread the word and send a tweet using our website at BanEProctoring.com
Lia & the team at ❤️Fight
Footnotes:
1. The Ubyssey: https://www.ubyssey.ca/news/proctorio-sues-linkletter/
2. Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wxvd/students-are-rebelling-against-eye-tracking-exam-surveillance-tools
3. Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/12/test-monitoring-student-revolt/
4. MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/proctorio-used-dmca-to-take-down-a-students-critical-tweets/ar-BB1aJpvS
5. MIT Technology Review:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006132/software-algorithms-proctoring-online-tests-ai-ethics/
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