Robin Pocornie brought a lamp with her to court. It’s nothing special, just a basic Ikea floor lamp. But for the masters student, the lamp was a useful prop to help explain how she believes her university’s exam supervision software discriminated against her based on the color of her skin.
Pocornie and her lamp stood in front of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, a court focused on discrimination claims, in October 2022. But the first time she encountered remote-monitoring software was two years earlier, during the pandemic, when her course at Dutch university VU Amsterdam was holding mandatory online exams. To prevent students from cheating, the university had bought software
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