What information does CoMaS gather?
CoMaS only monitors activity after you run the application and it is successfully logged in. While monitoring, CoMaS does these tasks:
- Screenshots and snapshots of the webcam are taken at a random interval and transmitted securely to the server. This information is also available locally on your computer in the CoMaS folder.
- It records if a snapshot or file, inside the CoMaS folder, has been deleted or modified while the application is running. (If CoMaS stops working during the exam and you need to run it again, overwriting and replacing the folder is permitted)
- It will record if a network connection is lost.
- If you have a document open or modify a document (pdf, doc, docx, txt, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, py, java, html, htm) while running CoMaS, it will record the name and path of that document and name of the application that opened or modified it. It will not look at the content of any file including the open ones.
- It does not record or look inside any of your files and documents (except for the files inside the CoMaS folder which are generated on the desktop each time you log in).
- It does not record any information from your browser history, cache, or cookies.
- It does not look at network traffic and does not probe devices with which you communicate.
- It does not record what applications you are running (however, if that application modifies a document of the mentioned types, it will record the path and name of the file and name of the application). Again, it will not read the content of any files.