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Background: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-vendor-proctorio-files-slapp-lawsuit-silence-critic https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02
by kasperni 6y ago
Background: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-vendor-proctorio-files-slapp-lawsuit-silence-critic https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-v...
- squarefoot 6y agoThe EFF took the student defense and sued back Proctorio yesterday. Good! https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-proctorio-behalf-student-it-falsely-accused-copyright-infringement-get https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-proctorio-behalf... https://www.eff.org/document/johnson-v-proctorio-complaint https://www.eff.org/document/johnson-v-proctorio-complaint
- dang 6y ago(This was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26900217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26900217, which we merged hither.)
- input_sh 6y agoThis isn't the same, it's two different lawsuits. One is for a student by the name of Ian Linkletter from British Columbia. EFF is suing on behalf of Erik Johnson from Miami. The only thing they have in common is Proctorio.
- dang 6y agoAh—sorry, I definitely missed that. I doubt that the distinction makes much difference for HN purposes, though, since threads on either one of those will fuse into the same discussion.