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Data ownership, digitalization and privacy

Digitisation is a form of modernisation that changes every year, and has certainly undergone major developments due to the Covid situation. This also means that there is no policy at all for certain developments regarding data ownership, digitisation and privacy. This is very dangerous when you consider how this can be detrimental not only to students, but to the entire education system. For example, students are still required to take their exams with multiple cameras without clear research into efficient and safe forms of examination, while the anti-cheating software Proctorio has proven to be unsafe. Hackers could easily gain access to students' computers. The companies that possess these images are also able to design discriminatory algorithms and use these images against students in the future.

For example, Leiden University is already using 'smart' cameras that can use facial recognition to determine whether or not you are wearing a face mask, for example, and to do so using similar risk profiles. Liberi Erasmi wants to see as little privacy violations, irresponsible use of data, and optimal digitalization developed for students as possible, and is therefore in favor of.:

Liberi Erasmi wants:

Assurance that all camera images are not misused for other purposes such as sale, storage, or algorithmic analysis. Privacy and digital security of students and staff are always paramount.
Data ownership comes to the students or university, and not to the tech companies.
Transparency and supervision of our personal data. Students must be able to see what happens to their data from private circumstances.
Our education and research should not be dependent on the revenue models of tech companies. Erasmus University should have as much autonomy as possible over the work processes of students and employees.
No proctoring if not necessary, and no second (mobile) camera. Professors should, where possible, design exams in a different way so that knowledge can be tested in a way that cannot be copied without proctoring.
Legal regulations stipulate that technical problems regarding online examinations may not simply be to the disadvantage of students.
Professors should have professional recording equipment for online lecture recordings from home.
No smart cameras or similar data-sensitive technologies on campus as is already the case at Leiden University.

Data ownership, digitalization and privacy

Liberi Erasmi wants:

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