Students are forced to install software that records video+audio of them, performs facial recognition, records their every keystroke for analysis, records their browsing history and open applications, aks them to show their entire room to the camera, keeps this data indefinitely with no privacy policy, and sometimes even gets compromised. Of course, sometimes it also doesn't even work, which makes it even worse!
There is generally no recourse for students who do not want to do this. Linux students are told to use Windows or fail the class. VM users are told they may be failed if they try to run the software in a VM (which is not allowed by the software and must be REed to attempt to begin with), and students that value their privacy or security (as this software is malware) have no recourse whatsoever often.
Regardless, droves of schools continue to spend absurd amounts of their endowment on expensive contracts with these remote proctoring malware companies, desperately attempting to hold up the facade that their degrees have a value that is somewhere near how much they charge in tuition.
I feel like I only escaped school recently myself, but it looks like it would be an even more miserable experience if I had to start the process again in 2020.