Facial recognition used to take payments from school children

Endeavour to use algorithms, facial recognition to tackle problem gamblers

Australia’s largest drinks and hotels business Endeavour Group has unveiled plans to use predictive algorithms and facial recognition to identify problem gamblers.

Schoolkids now pay for lunch by having their faces scanned

(Image courtesy Pixabay)By Ailan Evans Daily Caller News FoundationNine schools in Scotland are using facial recognition technology to charge students for their cafeteria lunches.The initiative, which debuted Monday in schools in the North Ayrshire area, was developed as a way of processing school lunch transactions faster and more efficiently, as well as eliminating close contact between individuals who may spread COVID-19, the Financial Times …

Nine UK schools tell schoolkids to pay for lunch via FACIAL RECOGNITION as opponents warn it normalizes surveillance state

Nine Scottish elementary schools have embraced a pilot plan to deploy facial recognition technology to verify children's school lunch payments, insisting the system is faster and more hygienic, while dodging the privacy issue.

Largs Academy uses facial recognition technology from today

Pupils at Largs Academy can now use facial recognition to pay for their lunches.

Facial recognition in UK schools prompts blowback

Privacy campaigners slammed the British government’s plan on Monday to use facial recognition on thousands of schoolchildren in Scotland, warning that Britain is veering away from the EU on basic principles of data protection.The use of facial recognition technology in schools is “manifestly unnecessary,” Ella Jakubowska, policy adviser at European Digital Rights, said.Facial recognition cameras are being used to scan the faces of thousands of B…

UK schools now using facial recognition in canteens

Swapping privacy for a faster queue?