> This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to > no backlash against spyware requirements for exams in most > law-schools.
There was backlash at Berkeley (my law school), and the school no longer forces students to install exam software. On 2/7/14, 10:12 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on >> students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy. > > This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to > no backlash against spyware requirements for exams in most > law-schools. (unless you want the massive disadvantage of turning in > your exam on paper…) > > I can't fathom how people it was remotely acceptable to require the > installation of spyware on students systems at institutions training > people for work which handles confidential client information where > running such software ought to be considered an violation of > professional conduct. > > But there you go— the world is an unfathomable place and here we have > just a natural continuation of that unfathomably. > > Cynically, I might suggest that the issue causing the complaints is > not the spyware, is that you don't get anything in return for it that > you weren't already receiving. > -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
