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Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law

Posted by timothy on from the pay-for-your-papers-please dept.

skeazer writes "Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students' homes. It sounds Orwellian, but the paragraph — part of legislation renewing the Higher Education Act — is all but assured of becoming law by the fall. No one in Congress objects to it."

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  1. Right. by PieSquared · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I haven't read TFA, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that by "spy cameras in their homes" they mean a camera attached to the computer while school work (or at least tests) is being done in an effort to make sure the degree goes to the person doing the work?

    As long as it isn't required to be on except while the student is doing work that would take place under the eyes of a professor or TA in a "real" college and as long as enrollment is voluntary I can't imagine it's really that objectionable.

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  2. They can't stop it in person by DustoneGT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They can't stop the cheating in person...what makes them think they can stop it over the internet?

  3. Re:And to think. . . by Bob-taro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should the government create a law that requires that schools enforce no-cheating?

    It's so some politician can brag, "I worked with congress to pass a law that eliminated cheating in American universities!"

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