Facial recognition

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City Education Department and Department of Information technology have developed and begun to deploy a new digital attendance system. The new system features facial recognition, and the registration of some staff has already been completed at nine secondary schools. Link

A Nepalese school have installed extensive HikVision - a controversial Chinese technology company - surveillance technologies throughout their campus. The installed technologies include entry barriers equipped with facial recognition terminals, and 77 other facial recognition points outside various

10 high schools in Guadalajara are introducing facial recognition as part of an initiative called Tu Sonrisa Checa, intending to manage school attendance. The initiative doesn't have approval from the data protection authority, nor has the initiative completed the legally required data protection

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

Global Indian International School (GIIS) announced the use of facial recognition technology at its SMART Campus in Singapore to automate attendance tracking and control access to classrooms. Students are enrolled through a facial identification system, allowing them to enter classrooms while

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

Ngee Ann Polytechnic announced a pilot programme using facial recognition technology in selected classrooms to automate attendance taking and support class management. The system uses artificial intelligence and data analytics to verify student identities and streamline administrative processes. The

Partners Serbia said it had submitted several requests to Serbia’s Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection to investigate alleged violations of privacy and data protection laws by public authorities. The organisation highlighted concerns about the growing use

A BIRN investigation found that Serbian public institutions have purchased thousands of surveillance devices over the past five years, including facial recognition-capable cameras, licence plate readers, voice recognition tools, behavioural analytics systems, and surveillance drones. Many of these

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

Police forces across Bosnia and Herzegovina are increasingly adopting advanced surveillance technologies, including drones, body cameras, smart traffic-monitoring systems, and camera networks with facial recognition capabilities. The article examines how these tools are being introduced to support

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

VisionLabs announced that its biometric and computer vision technologies had been introduced in more than 60 educational institutions across Russia, including Far Eastern Federal University, Kazan Federal University, Tomsk State University, and several schools. The company said the rollout was part

A parent in Badong County has complained about Jingxin Youyi Middle School - a local middle school - implementing a facial recognition system to manage on-campus purchases. The system is the Alipay One Face Pass system, which - the school claimed - was deployed as part of China's Smart Campus

Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) became the first university in Russia to deploy a large-scale campus-wide video surveillance and facial recognition system. Implemented with support from Sberbank, VisionLabs, and Tekhnozreniye, the project introduced 24/7 monitoring across university buildings

A student at Western University has started a petition asking for controversial proctoring software - Proctortrack - to be banned. The software is voluntary for professors, with only some choosing to use it. The software claims to prevent cheating in exams by monitoring students via their webcams