NY Schools to Install Facial Recognition Tech Used by Police and Military

careywedler (65) in news • 7 years ago (edited)

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7 years ago by careywedler (65)

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freespeech4ever (31) · 7 years ago (edited)

"Adding that keeping doors locks and using a visitor check-in system would be just as effective" - If not more. The cameras and facial recognition will do nothing to stop intruders, maybe just speed up response time a bit. With all those false though, maybe it will end up being like a case of the boy who cried wolf, and the response won't show up when needed most.

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geekpowered (69) · 7 years ago

Monitoring for sex offenders and visible weapons is not necessarily that big of a deal. Not like they will actually have many incidents of that, if any. What is most concerning is once a student's image gets uploaded into the database. I don't know how accurate their facial recognition is, but if combined with motion tracking, you have an extreme potential for abuse once a student's image is uploaded for whatever reason.

Say a student's image is uploaded because they're going to be suspended. Possibly it wasn't even their fault, whatever they did. Then they track them for the last 60 days, and write up every single possible infraction, and decide to expel them. Were they deserving of being expelled? Perhaps. I dunno, it's a hypothetical. However, they are deserving of an education, no matter what. Then they have to transfer to another school, putting undue hardship on them.

And what happens if there's a data breach? These students are being recorded all hours of the day. There is no way that something isn't going to happen that wouldn't be of interest to some pervert somewhere. I somehow doubt that they will be following all necessary security measures to ensure no video ever gets out. Hell, they even admitted that they had used video of the students, without their permission, while developing the software. I doubt they were paid, despite taking a role in the development of commercial software.

I didn't even have to get into the possibilities of overreaching government. It's already disturbing enough, just with what they proposed and admitted to.

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wfmkay (44) · 7 years ago

This well not work. The only thing that will work is if the FBI with the police do their jobs. The FBI knew about the shooters they were let go to do harm so to bring fear to the people, this so they can deman gun control. Those who know history knew when the government takes your way of protecting yourself, they come in and take you. This technology is only for our government to keep an eye on us, nothing to do with our safety.

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