"Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Fight for the Future, a nonprofit advocacy group in the area of digital rights, are working together to launch a campaign against colleges using biometric surveillance, also known as facial recognition.
According to EdScoop, the University of San Francisco implemented some of this technology in its dormitories in 2013 making the campus one of the pioneers in biometric surveillance in higher education. Although not yet commonplace, many facial recognition technology companies have their sights set on schools. CNET reported that at least two more California campuses have implemented facial recognition technology: Stanford University and the University of Southern California.
‘Students should not have to trade their right to privacy for an education.’ But privacy advocates are now speaking out against the use of this technology, particularly on college campuses." …
Facial recognition technology anywhere other than airports is terrifying to me. We should have the right to go about our daily lives without being tracked (& targeted!). This applies to the private sector (shout out to Target & Walmart) as well as the government.
@Publisher Which college student would don masks and heavy makeup in order to evade facial recognition software?
The only ones who would are criminals. Without facial recognition, there’d still be high-def cameras, so it would be trivial to find the criminal’s identity from a regular surveillance system. I don’t see how facial recognition does anything but expedite the police system.