Thousands of students at the Australian National University are protesting against test monitoring software the school wants students to install on their personal computers to complete spring exams.

ANU shifted to remote learning amid the coronavirus pandemic and “to ensure that the examinations are safe, secure, transparent and valid, the university will use Proctorio to invigilate exams remotely,” according to a statement to ABC.

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“Many universities have used Proctorio, and (it) complies with numerous privacy regulations/certifications.”

But students are pushing back on the “gross invasion of privacy,” citing Proctorio’s invasive monitoring and ANU’s history of mishandling student data. The software uses students’ webcams and facial recognition technology, along with keystroke monitoring, eye tracking and analysis of background activity or noise to develop a “suspicion level” for every student, the news site reports.

ANU officials can then access the information and video recordings, which are stored on the company’s computers, but allegedly cannot access files or other information on student computers. Just last October, ABC exposed how ANU has been repeatedly targeted by hackers who accessed student and faculty files containing tax and finance information, academic records and personal details like names and addresses.

“The ANU has had a patchy history with security breaches,” Grace Hill, student leading the protest against Proctorio, told ABC. “This has been a big area of concern for many students, particularly given the sensitive nature of what is being stored.”

Students understand the desire to keep exams honest, she said, but would prefer ANU cancel exams, conduct open-book exams or come up with something else less invasive.

“There’s increasingly requirements for students to participate in online learning with anti-cheating components,” Hill said. “But filming and recording and artificial intelligence monitoring of people’s faces and bodies has been what has crossed the line for many students.”

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About 3,000 ANU students signed an online petition demanding ANU ditch the software.

“The university should listen to student opinion, it’s overwhelming at this stage that students reject Proctorio,” Hill said.

University officials defended Proctorio and responded to the petition by assuring students officials beefed up cyber security and pointing to the company’s other customers.

“We can find no evidence of Proctorio suffering a security breach,” ANU wrote to students in a statement.

“Whilst the concerns are understandable, that should be balanced against the fact hundreds of universities have utilized it.”

Students in the U.S. are pushing back, as well.

Students at the University of Illinois successfully convinced professor Ran Ji to ditch Proctorio with complaints about privacy, bandwidth and software requirements, and device accessibility. Ji explained many students were completing their courses with smartphones, and Proctorio works through a Google Chrome web extension, the Daily Illini reports.

“It was really assumed that you have a laptop, and I have some students who really are doing all their online courses through their phone,” Ji said. “So, in addition to the privacy concerns, there were some students who really didn’t have the necessary resources.”