[Anonymous]

Many students in the schools in North Ayrshire uses Facial Recognition to buy lunches to speed up queues but their parents and campaigners didn’t agree about this because they are not aware of the privacy risks they will face these young students. In nine schools they begin to use this system for authorizing and to identify each student to prevent using card payments and fingerprint scanners to decrease the spread of COVID19 risks. The parents and campaigners are afraid from their children to use the biometric surveillance system because they are not ready and knowledgeable enough for the risk of privacy issues how will encounter them. David Swanston said who is the managing director of CRB Cunninghams that is the fastest way to recognize people through artificial intelligence which provided this system in these children schools who told to the Financial Times Newspaper. He then continued more about the system that each 25 minutes in a secondary school served 1000 pupils and needed to be fast at the point of sale. The transaction is approximately 5 second for each student. North Ayrshire Council said 97% of students used facial recognition that are consented by the parents. The department of education said that does not monitor to use the technology, while American schools such as in New York has temporarily banned this type of facial recognition technology. Fraser Sampson who is the Biometrics Commissioner for England and Wales said that the predecessors complained that facial recognition is not covered under the laws the same as the DNA and fingerprints and is the intrusive way to pay children for just the school lunches. The facial recognition system policy which dates back in 2015, when police of Leicestershire has trailed a system in the queues so people will enter to the Download Festival at Donnington Park. During the security of that festival, the non-live versions has been used for mugshot matching and for authenticating people to log in to their mobile phones by introducing new fewer privacy concerns to have more control that the face is matched. Then the people in the crowds had been arrested without a reason because the campaigners insisted that the technology is exposed. Despite the outcry of the event, the technology was not regulated well because the fingerprints and the DNA of the attendees potentially being invasive there’s no legislation introduce regarding this issue. Nowadays this system is used for the airports the E-Gates to identify individuals in the crowd through to Notting Hill Carnival. According to the Metropolitan Police 81% found out that the system is inaccurate. Silkie Carlo who is the head of Big Brother Watch said that do not need children to require an air-port style security system to just pay for their lunch.

My opinion in primary and secondary schools don’t need to have a lot of security restrictions to buy just for their lunches because of their minority age and don’t have security contactless cards to pay either only use cash. I agree when in tertiary schools to use this type of technology because they know already barely the security awareness and reach the mature age in these schools.

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