Facial recognition

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

The Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) is using a facial recognition system to stop examination fraud and impersonation. It says this is designed to ensure only registered candidates sit for exams, in case someone is hired to take the exam on someone else's behalf. The candidate's face is recorded

Edison Inter-level School in Vietnam has deployed a facial recognition access control system for students, teachers and staff. Faculty must register their face on a 'FaceDepot' device before being granted access through barriers, with the system holding 10,000 registered face templates and logs up

Hoang Mai Star School in Hanoi rolled out facial recognition access control across its whole campus in 2024. It worked with vendor Aratek Biometrics to replace manual ID checks with BA8300 terminals at four main gates, covering over 5,000 students, faculty and staff. The system uses liveness

Felpham Community College is introducing facial recognition as an optional way for students to pay for school meals through its cashless catering system. It is aimed at speeding up service during busy lunch periods. Participation is voluntary — students without parental consent, or who simply don't

Tajikistan is piloting facial recognition as a replacement for access cards and fobs at school entrances, currently running in 3 schools as part of the government's wider AI strategy. The stated privacy safeguard is that the ML matching runs locally within each school and data is stored on internal

The Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined the Skelleftea municipality 200,000 Swedish Krona for trialling facial recognition on high-school students to track attendance. 22 students we tracked over three weeks, with the system detecting when a pupil entered a classroom. Although the school

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has integrated facial recognition technology into its registration process, which verifies the identity of individuals by analysing unique facial features. “New students registering this year will receive an SMS with instructions to confirm their identity through

The Tagoloan Community College (TCC) in the Philippines has developed a facial recognition system to automate faculty attendance, logging staff as they enter and exit classrooms by matching real-time facial captures against stored embeddings and cross-checking them against teaching schedules. It

Three ICT systems have been launched in the Philippines: the Teachers Biometric Time and Attendance System, Smart Teachers ID Card and the Smart Interactive Board for Teaching and Learning System. The Teachers Biometric Time and Attendance System uses facial recognition at schools, while the Smart

The The University of Waikato in New Zealand is using facial recognition on students at its Waikato Joint Institute at Hangzhou City University in China It said the technology was "used for facility access ... not used in place of roll call". "The operations of our offshore campuses are influenced

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