Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
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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
#2> In a secondary school you have around about a 25-minute period to serve potentially 1,000 pupils.
Have they tried giving kids a humane amount of time to eat lunch?
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#3So instead of fixing the problem that pupils have to pay at all, they come up with this nonsense?
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#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?
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#5You gotta find material for the next season of Black Mirror somehow.
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#6> 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?
And the remaining 3% watched Black Mirror.
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#7So 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 shared it does not meant we wanted anyone to watch it!).
This allows insurance companies to analyze the data and either charge premiums or just deny health insurance to these children as they become adults because "You had too much sugar as a kid Tommy, here, look, this is footage of you eating 30 years ago!".
So you see, this system is genius and the possibilities are endless. Why can't you get it?
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In case it isn't clear, this is sarcasm, and I hope that whoever decided that filming children during lunch using facial recognition, and everyone who approved it, to be able to charge children for food, get fired and shamed for life.
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#8So instead of fixing the problem that pupils have to pay at all, they come up with this nonsense?
I often wondered about things like this: how much does the installing, maintainting and controlling a payment process (including but not limited to technology) contribute to the overall cost of a service?
And would making that service free reduce its cost so much that for instance a free lunch would actually cost less than a cheap lunch to the provider of that lunch?
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#9So instead of fixing the problem that pupils have to pay at all, they come up with this nonsense?
I often wondered about things like this: how much does the installing, maintainting and controlling a payment process (including but not limited to technology) contribute to the overall cost of a service? And would making that service free reduce its cost so much that for instance a free lunch would actually cost less than a cheap lunch to the provider of that lunch?
For some, technology works like magic - you throw it at a problem and lo it's solved! And you'll find enough shady IT providers to sell you such powerpoint-based magic, be it AI or crypto or or or.
Re: Facial recognition cameras installed in UK school canteens
#10Would it not be more straightforward to have a simpler menu and a set price per student for school meals ?
Or maybe, you know, have those school meals funded by the taxpayer ?
My 11 year old is free to choose from all sorts of junk (from the outsourced catering) that I’d rather he didn’t eat.
This is just one more unnecessary layer of complexity.