Background: It is important for institutions of higher education to maintain academic integrity, both for students and the institutions themselves. Proctoring is one way of accomplishing this, and with the increasing popularity of online courses-along with the sudden shift to online education sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic-digital proctoring has seen an increase in use. However, there are privacy and bias concerns related to digital proctoring, so it is important to critically examine its role in higher education-when it should and should not be used, and how it is perceived among those who interact with it.