Summary
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) has repeatedly warned against New York State’s planned remote bar examination on October 5th and 6th. The remote exam software uses invasive, error prone, and biased technologies such as facial recognition and other artificial intelligence. These technologies put the examinees’ privacy and future careers at risk.
The planned remote bar exam puts examinees at a significant risk of identity theft, ransomware attacks, and other computer crimes. There have been reports of such incidents in other states using ExamSoft, New York’s vendor, including a DDOS attack during the July exam in Michigan. Although the remote examination makes it impossible to completely protect yourself from cyber-attacks and related crimes, you can take basic steps to reduce your risks.
Sadly, the only way to completely protect test takers is to call off the misguided exam and give law school graduates diploma privileges.
