A school performing face recognition is a joke when it comes to privacy.
Coming from billions dollar business, storing document copies, required by law for certain type for contracts, securely is a HUGE burden and liability (aside the permission management, etc.) alongside the necessary audits - both internal and external.
Having footage and training data on kids would be a resounding 'no' from me (both as a parent and engineer). Schools would never, ever have enough resources do to it properly.
In this particular instance they need one bit of info: "present" and that should be it all.
The fine is well justified, considering someone won a contract to install the system without any oversight from the school.
Facial recognition can raise privacy concerns but it does not necessarily erode privacy.
Schools have a duty to provide a safe environment, including keeping track of who's on school premises, where pupils are, and whether pupils are let to leave premises when they are not expected to. Obviously the younger the pupils the stronger those duties.
For example, facial recognition could tell the system that you are in the library but doing so would not erode your privacy in the library at all.
well, until the technology is trusted "enough", there should be audit logs - pretty much destroying privacy.
Again, with the current technology and literacy level, I'd not trust a school to be able to afford to employ proper security policies. It's already hard for businesses that actually spend substantial effort and resources.
Coming from billions dollar business, storing document copies, required by law for certain type for contracts, securely is a HUGE burden and liability (aside the permission management, etc.) alongside the necessary audits - both internal and external.
Having footage and training data on kids would be a resounding 'no' from me (both as a parent and engineer). Schools would never, ever have enough resources do to it properly. In this particular instance they need one bit of info: "present" and that should be it all.
The fine is well justified, considering someone won a contract to install the system without any oversight from the school.