When I was in college, cheating was already rampant. I ended up dropping out the semester prior to graduation, despite performing well, because I just couldn't

When I was in college, cheating was already rampant. I ended up dropping out the semester prior to graduation, despite performing well, because I just couldn't muster the desire to continue. Part of that was because of seeing how many people around me were blatantly and consistently cheating compared to the work I put in. Without the credential it's definitely created some challenges in my career, but I took the far more valuable /education/ with me into my career and have been very successful overall. When I look up most of my former classmates, they have not achieved near my level of success, partly because they failed to learn due to their rampant cheating. They may have received the credential, but they failed to learn anything they could take forward in life with them. I'm of two minds on this. I think that rampant cheating greatly undermines student morale for those students that don't cheat, but on the other hand it doesn't really matter because in the long-run it cheats the student who's cheating, not the class. The piece of paper at the end doesn't matter. All that aside, the way e-proctoring is done now, and new "advancements" with facial recognition being added into it, is horrifyingly privacy invading and often done in a way which is effectively malicious software being forced to be installed on a student's personal equipment. As a strong advocate for privacy and security, I cannot be anything but opposed to the way things are going. When I do remote proctored certification exams for continuing education, I've always preferenced taking them in a testing center kiosk specifically so I don't need any such software installed on my own computer systems.