Facial recognition used to take payments from schoolchildren
The article from sky news provides information about the integration of facial recognition electronics in schools to process payments from juniors. Some of the schools in the United Kingdom are acquiring this technology payment systems to allow children to pay for their meals directly by scanning their faces. The innovation is a result from taken protections from COVID-19 to avoid any contact with the human body. Exponents support this idea as they think the same will result in effectiveness and security, however there are a lot of concerns regarding the privacy and the moral consequences of using this kind of technology. Ultimately, the article outlines the ongoing dispute between modernisation and the privacy rights in the educational systems.
My opinion:
Nowadays, living in such technology-oriented world, the idea to integrate modern payment system in the schools will be an advantage. The parent’s mind will be in peace as they don’t need to assure that their children will not forget the passwords to their cards or the fact that their cards won’t be stolen or lost. Moreover, this process seemed to be happening very quickly, which is very important for such a busy environment as schools. Everything have advantages and disadvantages, since this kind of electronics collets a biometric data, some of the people might be worried about. Even the fact that we don’t know how our data is collected and what is it used for, at some point this will be implemented in our routine, and we will need to adapt to the change. Nevertheless, since the world is changing and developing rapidly, I don’t consider collecting of biometric data as a something that I need to be concerned for, as in a few years more this will be unavoidable and part of our daily live situation. I believe that the protection system will continue developing more and more and issues such as a stolen data will be very rare situation.