Good morning to everyone except people who think this is a good idea.

Facial recognition heads to class. Will students benefit?

Innovators plow forward with this technology in a largely unregulated ecosystem. Ethicists and a new National Academies report urge caution.

The answer to will stressed out students benefit from the knowledge they are being constantly monitored throughout the day is no. This seems an easy question to answer

Didn't they nail the problem early in the article? “I think this prof is trying to do whatever she can to get good reviews [...] and hasn’t said anything all term about people texting from their MacBooks during class” I fail to see how technological proof actually helps. Step missing.

Chilling. Monstrous. The Luddites (who had a legitimate beef right from the start) need to reassert themselves

it feels relentless, this shit.

Is it worth inventing easily transferable facial prosthetics to wear as a protest against this?

lol @ these snitches

The Torment Nexus will apparently not be stopped.

Morning!

Maybe they can partner up with Chinese schools who already have considerable experience with authoritarian practices such as video surveillance. www.engadget.com/2018-05-17-c...

Chinese school uses facial recognition to make kids pay attention

Civilian surveillance in China has seen a boom in recent times, with facial recognition leading the charge in the technologies used to keep tabs on the population. Police are scanning travelers with f...

betteridge's law stays undefeated