A new law may require a webcam in your house if you're doing remote course work for a degree

[thewayne]

To eliminate cheating, of which there is no solid evidence, much less proof that attending classes and taking exams in person eliminates cheating, there is a provision in a new education law that may require you to have an electronic monitoring device in your house for when you take tests.

Naturally, some of these systems only work with Windows computers.

Now, obviously you can unplug the stupid things when they're not needed, but WTF?

http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i46/46a00103.htm

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1724225