New York State Education Department Commissioner Betty A. Rosa has issued an order prohibiting New York State schools from purchasing or using facial recognition technology. Schools may use other forms of biometric identification, the department says, but are asked to consider “the technology’s privacy implications, impact on civil rights, effectiveness, and parental input”.
In a report on the subject earlier this summer, the state’s Office of IT Services noted that “there are discernable risks to the use of this technology in school settings”.
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