Recognizing strangers who enter schools
Posted by Judy Breck on November 16, 2007
USA Today reports on a new system that will be tested in three Nashville schools beginning December 1st:
Nashville will take digital photos of students and workers at the three test schools and store them in the new camera system. . . . When a camera spots a face in a school that it cannot match to a stored photo, it will alert security. The system also could detect suspended and expelled students and fired employees . . . .
Pros and cons of the system are discussed in the USA Today article. The powerful face recognition technology has been controversial with regard to some privacy issues. In Nashville, where several intruders have entered schools in the past year, a school official quoted in the article says, “This will give us an edge in providing safety for our students and teachers.”
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