The New York Times says that facial recognition is coming soon to an airport near you. And this year “could be the ‘tipping point’ for widespread biometrics use in air travel”.
Surveillance in the name of convenience. And “security”, of course.
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Spying On Your Kids
Evidently, our overly-large school district will help with that.
Put this in the category of “I didn’t know this was happening”: in a recent newsletter, we learn that parents can sign up to get a weekly report on “their child’s activity on an FCPS device”, courtesy of the company the district pays for content censorship filtering.
Keeping An Eye On The Kids
From a business magazine called Fast Company comes a good opinion piece discussing “Why schools need to abandon facial recognition, not double down on it”.
It’s written by two fellows from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who link to a growing body of research indicating that these systems use software that is heavily biased and frequently inaccurate. Which is pretty typical in the AI business these days.
The Growing Business of Student Surveillance
A recent article in The New Yorker asks, “Is Online Test-Monitoring Here to Stay?”.
Unfortunately, the answer is probably yes, especially since the broader student surveillance industry is rapidly expanding.
It Won’t Just Go Away
Come September, the COVID-19 virus is likely to still be a public health problem, which, as I discussed in an earlier post, will make opening school for the new year a challenge.
According to Wired, at least one K12 district in Ohio believes they can address some virus-related issues using surveillance technology to continually track of where students are and who they come in contact with during the day.