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Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens

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Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens

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Post by dekken_ »

volta83 wrote: post #7
chmod775 wrote: post #3

So instead of fixing the problem that pupils have to pay at all, they come up with this nonsense?

What nonsense? Before, children only had to pay for food. If they don't or can't pay, we starve them, that'll teach them. But now, they also have to pay for this system, and its potential life long consequences. Like, suppose we offer it to the cheapest contractor, which delivers a crappy insecure system. So somebody "hacks" it and leaks videos of children eating (just because it uploaded all footage to facebook and…

if accountability were a thing, this wouldn't have gotten passed the first meeting

Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

chuckee wrote: post #4

> North Ayrshire Council said 97 per cent of children or their parents had consented to the new system So the opinion of the North Ayrshire Council is that children can consent?

I'd bet money that the parents consented to some boilerplate that the new system is technically covered under or that one day in school they handed out permission forms for the "new school lunch program" and told kids either they could sign it and return it now or that they could bring it home for their parents. Obtaining "consent" in less than honest ways like this is SOP for schools.

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Post by mattowen_uk »

stefan_ wrote: post #15

What happened to good old fucking smart cards?

When my daughter was at school several years ago, they rolled-out biometric fingerprint scanning for school meal payment. I steadfastly refused to let her be enrolled as I didn't feel that a child could give informed consent on their unique biometrics being stored and shared.

She ended up having to use a NFC smart card instead, and wasn't the only pupil to do so (although it was in single-digits in a 1,000 pupil strong school).

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Post by corobo »

pintxo wrote: post #13

Do they use it to record the kids reaction to the food they serve to quickly and automatically rate their output quality and subsequently serve better food the next day? If not, what is the problem with this branch of reality?

> what is the problem with this branch of reality?

We put all of our points into the commercialism tree rather than focusing on enjoying existence

Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens

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Post by pintxo »

chuckee wrote: post #4

> North Ayrshire Council said 97 per cent of children or their parents had consented to the new system So the opinion of the North Ayrshire Council is that children can consent?

The more interesting problem, how do they handle the 3% who did not consent?

- Do they eat in a different hall?

- Do they have to wear Harry Potter like cloaking devices?

- Or more like Ku Klux Klan hoodies?

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