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LEGAL UPDATE

A year ago, Mr. Erik Johnson filed a federal lawsuit against Proctorio. Yesterday, Mr. Johnson withdrew that lawsuit. A joint statement from Mr. Johnson and Proctorio in connection with the dismissal appears below. Joint Statement by Erik Johnson & Proctorio, Inc. Education is rapidly changing in the United States and around the world. Today, technology is an integral part of life and is being used in classrooms and by schools in ways that are both new and productive, but that also raise concerns for those most directly impacted—students and their family members. Proctorio, a leader in remote test proctoring software, understands these concerns and takes them seriously. Proctorio also hears the impassioned criticism about its technology. Proctorio welcomes all fair and honest critiques about its online proctoring technology and about this industry. Erik Johnson has been an important voice raising concerns about the online proctoring industry, and Proctorio has listened to and appreciated his perspective. Mr. Johnson understands that some of his comments about Proctorio were imprecise and presented without context. With this statement, we would like to set the record straight. We recognize that some face detection and gaze detection algorithms have higher error rates, or work less accurately, for people of color. These issues have long existed to some degree in all camera-based technology. Many passionate and talented people are devoted to finding and stamping out these disparities and working to stop them from happening in the first place. Both Proctorio and Mr. Johnson are proudly and publicly a part of this endeavor. Mr. Johnson's statement that Proctorio uses 'racist algorithms to detect faces'—which Mr. Johnson based on a flawed blog post that relied on an unrepresentative dataset without a single image taken by a webcam—created the misleading impression that Proctorio is not sensitive to these issues, when in fact Proctorio has made substantial efforts to address them. Proctorio is not a

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