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Canadian Universities' AI Proctoring Tools Reportedly Collected Student Biometric Data Without Adequate Consent
- Occurred
- Mar 9, 2020
- Published
- Nov 22, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian universities reportedly used AI-enabled remote-proctoring tools for online exams. A University of Ottawa project supported by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that tools such as Respondus Monitor, ProctorU, ProctorTrack, Proctorio, ProctorExam, and Examity collected student personal or biometric data under conditions not conducive to meaningful consent.
Developers
- Respondus Monitor
- ProctorU
- ProctorTrack
- Proctorio
- ProctorExam
- Examity
Deployers
- Universities
- Professors
- Educators
- Canadian universities
Harmed parties
- University students
- Universities
- Students
- Educational communities
- Canadian students
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI proctoring tools collected biometric data without valid consent, raising privacy and legal threshold concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8