Facial recognition

A network of Azerbaijani private schools called LANDAU school have added employee GPS tracking, contact monitoring, and facial recognition to their existing surveillance systems. Wialon - the software solution being implemented - claim that their facial recognition system "captures the mood" -

Medical students at the University of Queensland object to the introduction of invasive and inconsistent proctoring software to monitor students taking exams remotely. The software must be downloaded on student's personal computers, it performs a biometric check using facial recognition to compare

InternetLab have found a significant increase in the rollout of facial recognition across Brazillian's state schools. Their 2023 report found that just 1 state, of those that responded to them, had deployed the technology, along with 9 states' municipal schools. In 2025 this number has significantly

LoopLearn - a controversial school facial recognition start-up from Melbourne, Australia - have received an Accelerating Commercialisation grant from the Australian federal government. The technology claims to currently be being trialed in 100 schools across Australia - though the company refuse to

Following trials of 'LoopLearn', an Australian start-up who sell facial recognition scanners to monitor attendance, in Victorian independent schools - Victoria have introduced much tighter rules for schools who want to introduce facial recognition. Now, any state that wants to implement the

New legislation gives government access to school surveillance cameras and allows the integration of facial recognition. The new set of amendments to the Armenian Law on Police grants the Ministry of Internal Affairs access to surveillance cameras in a range of public places, along with schools

Schools in Victoria in Australia have started a 6-week trial of facial recognition devices in order to provide real time attendance data. Sacred Heart College - a Catholic girls school - have written to parents ahead of implementing the systems in their Year 11 classes. However, the Department for

In April 2025, prosecutors in Paraná, Brazil initiated legal action against the state government over a program that scans students’ faces to log school attendance. The initiative, introduced two years earlier, requires teachers to capture images of entire classes, which are then analysed to confirm

A Colorado moratorium on facial recognition cameras in schools is set to end after two years. State legislators had voted to investigate how biometric systems are used, but its expiration in July 2025 could trigger a surge in facial recognition and AI surveillance that could enter the education

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded the Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford, Essex for unlawfully implementing facial recognition technology in its canteen. The school failed to perform a data protection information assessment, and didn't get adequate permission to

Schools in Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana, are using facial recognition to take morning attendance. Telangana is also using facial recognition to pay pensions, renew driving licences, evoting, and deter crime. Adoption was partly fueled by fear of spreading covid-19 through

The Delhi government is expected to introduce facial recognition in schools in order to improve attendance, which is hovering at 65-70%. The government also proposes to provide parents with monthly attendance reports and introduce monthly and weekly tests in order to keep students engaged. Educators

Numerous research efforts are developing facial recognition systems for use in classrooms. In one example, researchers at Guilford College are designing a system for classroom management that will use multiple cameras to take attendance, monitor students’ activities, and detect their emotional

The 746 KGBV schools in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh say the schools’ facial recognition attendance system has helped improve both students’ and teachers’ attendance. KGBVs are residential schools intended to educate girls from impoverished backgrounds. Link: Face-recognition Tech helps KGBV in

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

An administrative court in Montreil, France issued a preliminary ruling ordering the Paris-based Distance Learning Institute to suspend its use of the e-proctoring platform TestWe, which uses facial recognition and algorithmic analysis to monitor students.Video and sound analysis track students' eye