Sparrow 🏳️‍🌈 Aug 28, 2023
Ian Linkletter
Uploading student work to an unauthorized AI detection website could break privacy laws, exposing you and your institution to a lawsuit. Do you know where your Privacy Impact Assessment is, and what it says? Would your institution defend you if you proceed without permission?
Aug 26, 2023 at 12:17amWeb
Show threadPrentiss Riddle 🎛Sep 3, 2023

@Linkletter

Not disagreeing, but I'd like to know more.

If you email your student's paper back to them with comments using an outside email service, you have handed it to a third party. Hopefully their privacy policy protects you and the student.

Could it be the same for AI and plagiarism detection services?

Show threadIan LinkletterSep 5, 2023
@pzriddle In the Canadian context, especially British Columbia where I live, third-party email services are heavily discouraged for privacy reasons. With technology like AI text detection, where a copy of the student's work *must* be uploaded to function, students need to be able to give meaningful consent. In addition to privacy rights, they have copyright rights too.