Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance

Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j53ba3/facial-recognition-school-surveillance-v25n3

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This fall, as students file into Lockport City schools in upstate New York, they will be watched not just by teachers. Instead, for the first time in the district’s history, students will be monitored by a sophisticated new surveillance system that scans their faces, looking for matches to the school’s security database.