<story><title>Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49489154</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Good. Not only does this ensure that the students enjoy privacy, monitoring children in school with surveillance systems could have come straight out of foucault&amp;#x27;s discipline and punish.&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should think about how we make schools spaces of freedom for our children rather than turning them into the next panopticon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>School is the most authoritarian experience one typically experiences in a democracy. Here is a place where a strict hierarchy is enforced, through means of parental and peer pressure, anxiety over your future. Your schedule is planned by the minute, even peeing requires an authorization. Chatting is banned except on very limited time spans.&lt;p&gt;The fact that we have kept a part of middle-age inside our modern societies keeps fascinating and frightening me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49489154</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Good. Not only does this ensure that the students enjoy privacy, monitoring children in school with surveillance systems could have come straight out of foucault&amp;#x27;s discipline and punish.&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should think about how we make schools spaces of freedom for our children rather than turning them into the next panopticon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moksly</author><text>I work in public digitalisation in Denmark, and I can’t think of a single reason of why you would ever even want this.&lt;p&gt;What’s the use case? Automatic student registration? If it is, and I can certainly imagine some HR consultant going “weeeeeell we can squeeze five minutes of extra education in if we remove this teacher-student interaction of registration, that’s a gazillion hours of extra education a year!”. I know this is a strawman of my experience, but it’s frankly the only way it would happen at my place. Which would be crazy considering the primary focus of Schools in Scandinavia is to educate democratic citizens, and automating something as meaningful as presence registration is damaging to that focus because the “AI” won’t be able to have a conversation about the usefulness of attendance.&lt;p&gt;So I absolutely agree with you. This is completely crazy, but what I really wonder is why no one asked “why?”.</text></comment>