{"id":12225,"date":"2021-07-28T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12225"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:57:23","slug":"why-schools-need-to-abandon-facial-recognition-not-double-down-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-schools-need-to-abandon-facial-recognition-not-double-down-on-it\/12225\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Schools Need to Abandon Facial Recognition, Not Double Down On It"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Fast Company, July 23, 2021. With the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions and the end of summer quickly approaching, schools are preparing to welcome students back into their classrooms for in-person learning. With that transition comes the return of a troubling trend in education\u2014the monitoring of students through facial recognition systems, as well as the consideration of using the technology to enforce existing school discipline policies. The number of schools deploying these tools threatens to grow in the fall as\u00a0many consider using federal COVID-19 relief funds\u00a0to purchase facial recognition equipment. The use of this technology disproportionately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-schools-need-to-abandon-facial-recognition-not-double-down-on-it\/12225\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Fast Company, July 23, 2021. With the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions and the end of summer quickly approaching, schools are preparing to welcome students back into their classrooms for in-person learning. With that transition comes the return of a troubling trend in education\u2014the monitoring of students through facial recognition systems, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,59,368,230,1075,243],"class_list":["post-12225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-analytics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-analytics","tag-facial-recognition","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12226,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions\/12226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}