[Marilyn Cini]

Nine schools in North Ayrshire have used software that identifies faces rather than card payments and fingerprint scanners in the hope of speeding up paying for school lunches, citing quicker service and eliminating the risk of Covid-19. This type of system has been implemented for five seconds on average per student by CRB Cunningham in a transaction. Critics say it would normalize biometric tracking for children and raise even more concerns about confidentiality, despite 97% of parents or children supposedly accepting its usage. Comparable programs were briefly banned in some states in the United States in schools. If there is an option of smaller payment methods, insists Biometric Commissioner for England and Wales Fraser Sampson, those should be considered instead. Other concerns raised by the critics have been the lack of legal restriction to the technology and the potential for wrongful arrests.

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