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posted by chromas on Tuesday October 26 2021, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the big-bother-about-feeding-big-brother dept.

looorg writes:

Followup for the previous story about facial recognition for pupils in school to get their food.

Nine schools in North Ayrshire have paused use of facial recognition technology days after introducing it, following UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) inquiries.

[...] Separately, Prof Fraser Sampson, biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales, told the BBC that he expected public services contemplating the use of facial recognition to think carefully before "deciding to use a measure as obviously intrusive as facial recognition".

[...] On Friday, North Ayrshire Council tweeted that it had decided to temporarily pause the facial recognition system in secondary schools, having received a number of inquiries about the technology.

I guess there was a bit of a big brother backlash after it became known and the project is now on pause. Or they won't use the entire system but just the fingerprint part, not fingerprint and face scan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59037346

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 28 2021, @04:40AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 28 2021, @04:40AM (#1191249) Journal
    You're claiming that there is such a barrier. I'm merely showing the folly of your beliefs from your own priors. Plus, I don't agree that a mere ignorance of the problems of mass privacy violations constitutes peer pressure.

    To continue, there are two US examples of the lowering of genuine peer pressure barriers. First, the great diminishing of peer pressure in recreational drug use. While the war on drugs is a net disaster, it is interesting that "Just say no" had some effect.

    Second, racism in the US used to be in large part a cultural bullying not only of the ethnic groups at the wrong end of the racism, but also of people who would otherwise get along/work with/date/marry with the targeted ethnic groups. While it's true that there is now peer pressure in other directions (such as some parts requiring a two minute hate of alleged racists), this remains a change in said peer pressure. Both examples occurred in a single generation, meaning a lot of living people had to change their minds in order for it to happen. Rather than emo on about how unchangeable people are, perhaps you should study what works?