Biometrics

The director of the Preparatory 9 high school has announced via Facebook that the school are about to turn on a new facial recognition entry system. This is despite - seemingly - not updating their pre-existing privacy notice, which governed the previous fingerprint system for access to campus. When

The SK Taman Perling 1 school became the first in Malaysia to use facial recognition to take attendance. The headteacher told the New Straits Times that two facial recognition scanners had been installed for pupils to use and another for staff, and that all 1,034 students and 88 staff would use the

Article 19 have published a report investigating the deployment of emotion recognition technology in schools in China found the technology has been deployed in some schools, and is being heavily promoted despite concerns about it's accuracy, it's potential to erode human rights, and whether the

Six classes at the University are trialing facial recognition to take registration. Students attending the class need to check in when they arrive in order to have their identity checked. The introduction of the system has led to some disquiet amongst students - including those not attending those

Proctortrack - a proctoring service used in universities across Canada that uses facial recognition and other tools to attempt to prevent cheating in online tests - experienced a data breach in 2020. Despite claims by the company that no identifiable information was accessed, more than 150 students

The Afghanistan government plan to biometrically register students and staff at madrassas across the country. Though there are some reports that staff do not want to help with the registration process. The intent is to move madrassas under the control of the government and to prevent some people

Google has settled a case brought in 2020 by the parents of an Illinois girl who sued the company in state court alleging that it had violated two sections of the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The case also alleged that Google had violated the law by failing to obtain parental consent to

Skeptics at an education conference pushed parents to question AI vendors' pitches instead of gambling children's privacy for promises of increased on-campus safety. Even so, schools are increasingly upgrading surveillance systems to incorporate AI and biometrics in the name of safety. Link to

A platform that will serve as a central data repository for India's One Nation One Student ID is due to start operation in February 2024. The 12-digit student ID (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) is liked to students' Aadhaar biometric IDs and has so far been issued to 20 million

The ACLU of Maine has criticised the Caribou school district and the Pennsylvania-based biometric education company IdentiMetrics for mishandling a contract by not laying out clear plans for protecting student data. The contract was to supply a biometric finger scanner to track student attendance

Schools in New Jersey and Wisconsin are installing Singlewire Software’s Visitor Aware, visitor management software that includes facial recognition and ID scanning, and collects visitors’ names, ID documents, date of birth, address, gender, and a facial photo, which it uses to check against the

The Office of the Information Commissioner has warned Scotland's North Ayrshire council that it has likely infringed data protection law by using facial recognition technology in nine schools. North Ayrshire used the iPayimpact contactless system for payment for meals, and claimed that 97% of

According to police plans to enhance “school safety”, security cameras and facial recognition will monitor children in Hong Kong in class and around educational facilities. The move is part of a trend also found in China, India, and the US toward mining children’s data, even though few benefits have

The Focus1, or FuSi, from the US-based startup BrainCo, claims to measure how closely students are paying attention via electrodes that detect brain activity and send the data to teachers’ computers or a mobile app. Lights on the headband glow red, yellow, or blue to signify the level of engagement

The facial recognition system the Indian state of Telangana intends to adopt for taking attendance in schools will be AI-enhanced, eliminate the paper register via an Android app, serve 2.6 million students in 26,000 schools, and be extended to teachers after it has been successfully implemented for