Calls for immediate ban on facial recognition after privacy group finds 60 schools using the technology A pupil eats her cooked hot dinner during her lunch break in the canteen at St. Luke’s Church of England Primary School in east London, on Sept. 3, 2020. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images) Over 60 schools are using facial recognition in what privacy campaigners say is making Britain a “surveillance society growing out of control.”
A new report ( pdf ) on the lawless gathering of facial data, published by Big Brother Watch, reveals how schools are investing “huge sums” of money in the technology despite calls for the practice to be banned completely in the UK.
“Biometric Britain: The Expansion of Facial Recognition Surveillance” lays out in detail how some schools—along with police, retailers, and tech companies—are expanding facial recognition while the European Union is legislating to restrict its use.
The civil liberties group […]
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