Facial recognition

Following questions from journalists the Portuguese data protection authority have opened an investigation into a three month trial of a facial recognition system carried out by United Lisbon International School. Though Paraná's government claimed the technology was approved by management, the

The United Lisbon International School - a private school in Portugal - have signed an agreement with Celepar, the controversial facial recognition provider who have been supplying the state of Paraná in Brazil, to test their facial recognition system for 3 months. Link to article (via wayback

Following the 2024 announcement of a new biometric system for tracking teacher's attendance - Papua New Guinea' s Education Secretary has updated that a few schools in the National Capital District (NCD) have procured and installed the required devices. The devices will be rolled out throughout the

Papua New Guinea's Education Minister announces launch of several new technology systems for schools, including a new facial recognition system called The Teachers Biometric Time and Attendance System. The systems are supposed to be rolled out to secondary schools in late 2024. Link to article

109 schools in Bishkek - the capital of Kyrgyzstan - have installed 218 facial recognition cameras, 144 of which are linked to the police department. The police said that the cameras would help to improve student's behaviour and security. Link to article (in Russian) Author: Adiet Asanov Publication

Hyogo College of Medicine have become the first university in Japan to install a facial recognition system. The college claims they will save 425 hours of work per year. They system is designed to confirm students' presence in class. Link to article Publisher: Vice News Author: Lex Celera

Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) have raised concerns with facial recognition being installed in schools in Delhi despite there being no laws that might regulate their use, or the collection or use of data. The systems are installed in over 12 schools in Delhi, and follows Delhi's decision to

Karnataka's Department of School, Education, and Literacy have been asked to roll back their new initiative to use a new facial recognition system to track student's attendance, and beneficiaries for free school lunches and other government welfare schemes. The system would cover 52,686 schools and

The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) have decided that an experiment in which facial recognition was installed in two high schools in Nice and Marseille. The CNIL decided that the implementation didn't comply with the GDPR principles of proportionality or data minimisation, and ultimately

Court rules against Facial Recognition installed in two high schools in victory for La Quadrature du Net. The two schools, one in Nice and one in Marseille installed the cameras in 2018 as an experiment. La Quadrature du Net brought the case in 2019 and have been vindicated by France's first court

The article claims that nearly 1,000 schools in China are using facial recognition supplied by a company called Baidu Brain. The article looks at Hualong Primary School, a school in Guangzhou in China, and highlights several other Middle schools that have installed facial recognition to manage

In Lockport, New York, facial recognition technology is used in eight public schools to monitor who’s on the property. Faces match a “persons of interest” database made by school administrators. It includes sex offenders, people not allowed to see students by restraining orders, former employees

Barbers Hill school district in Texas is using facial recognition technology from AnyVision on 32 entryways throughout the district. The software uses AI to detect, track and recognise people in a mass crowd in real-time, and can notifying safety personnel immediately. The software costs $131,000

The Texas City school district is using a facial recognition system to scan for people not allowed on school grounds. The security measures, cost $6.3 million in eight months to protect from potential school shooters. The ID system itself cost $621,000. It means the school has a digital map showing

The Santa Fe Independent School District is working with a company called AnyVision for AI-based surveillance. The system works with an existing camera network to track certain faces, bodies or objects. It can recognise people based on old photos, or if they are wearing hoodies or glasses – although

Washington State University's police department uses facial recognition technology. Real-time or near-real-time identification, ongoing surveillance, and persistent tracking - such as keeping facial template data beyond 48 hours or cross-linking it to identify someone - are allowed if officers