Writing Biometrics and Academic Integrity – Cursive Technology, Inc.

The digital footprint of who is sitting in front of a computer today may be detected in more ways than one might expect. Beyond just user authentication, this includes, IP address, geolocation, internet service provider, internet cookies, ping time, and ability to complete complex tasks. CAPTCHA, also reCAPTCHA software use a number of these strategies to determine if you are a bot pretending to be a human, or an actual human. These systems have become increasing more sophisticated as the developers of these bots are able to fool CAPTCHA tasks, such as selecting traffic lights in a set of images automatically without the need for a human. In the academic space, this has hardly been an issue.