‘I’m afraid’: critics of anti-cheating technology for students hit by lawsuits

New technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, raise anxiety and be discriminatoryIn 2020, a Canadian university employee named Ian Linkletter became increasingly alarmed by a new kind of technology that was exploding in use with the pandemic. It was meant to detect cheating by college and high-school students taking tests at home, and claimed to work by watching students’ movements and analyzing sounds around them through their webcams and m