Facial recognition

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

A Nepalese school have installed extensive HikVision - a controversial Chinese technology company - surveillance technologies throughout their campus. The installed technologies include entry barriers equipped with facial recognition terminals, and 77 other facial recognition points outside various

10 high schools in Guadalajara are introducing facial recognition as part of an initiative called Tu Sonrisa Checa, intending to manage school attendance. The initiative doesn't have approval from the data protection authority, nor has the initiative completed the legally required data protection

The director of the Preparatory 9 high school has announced via Facebook that the school are about to turn on a new facial recognition entry system. This is despite - seemingly - not updating their pre-existing privacy notice, which governed the previous fingerprint system for access to campus. When

Global Indian International School (GIIS) announced the use of facial recognition technology at its SMART Campus in Singapore to automate attendance tracking and control access to classrooms. Students are enrolled through a facial identification system, allowing them to enter classrooms while

The SK Taman Perling 1 school became the first in Malaysia to use facial recognition to take attendance. The headteacher told the New Straits Times that two facial recognition scanners had been installed for pupils to use and another for staff, and that all 1,034 students and 88 staff would use the