The surveillance of students has raised privacy issues for educators and parents.
The 22-year-old student at a university in northwestern China must get through face scanners to enter her dormitory and register attendance, while cameras above the blackboards in her classrooms keep an eye on the students’ attentiveness.
Chinese university says new classroom facial recognition system will improve attendanceAfter long exposure to the scanners at her Xian university, Li is used to the technology’s constant presence – and its obvious failures. The “smart” facial recognition system cannot recognise her if she wears different glasses and there are long queues to get through the door to her dormitory.
The Hangzhou No 11 High School in the coastal province of Zhejiang uses the systems in various applications, from its canteens to manage distribution of school meals to its classrooms where it monitors whether students enjoy their classes. “In the future, the education system will be a major carrier of AI applications, because Generation Z – people who were born in the mid-1990s to early 2000s and have used the internet since they were young – have higher demands on personalised study, and AI can help to achieve that,” Wu said.
“I think educating children is about teaching them to be polite and humane, and to nurture their curiosity about the world,” he said. “Why do we need to monitor them?” Lei Chaozi, the ministry’s director general for science and technology, told Shanghai-based online news outlet The Paper that the ministry had also appointed a specialist panel to look into data security and privacy concerns with facial recognition in campuses.
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