Why

University students: *laughs/cries in honorlock*

i'd be running all sorts of apps that are questionable

Also a very illegal invasion of privacy without consent of the user.

It’s not real though. Zoom has an attention tracking feature and that is limited.
“ attention tracking feature is off by default - once enabled, hosts can tell if participants have the App open and active when the screen-sharing feature is in use. It does not track any aspects of your audio/video or other applications on your window.”

That's why we told our Instructors to use Google Meet instead