Good article that looks at the use of facial recognition technology in schools and raises a set of specific concerns regarding its use:
- The dehumanising nature of facially focused schooling
- The foregrounding of students' gender and race
- The inescapable nature of school-based facial recognition
- The elimination of obscurity
- The increased authoritarian nature of schooling
- The cascading logic of automation (ie., it gets used for more and more things)
- The future oppression of marginalised groups within schools
The authors note that students are not in a good position to refuse facial recognition technology, since they are already enrolled in an authoritarian system, and so would be likely to respond with "the deployment of improvised and opportunistic 'tactics'" such as face-masking and defacement (like asymmetrical haircuts, etc).
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