Victorian state schools will be banned from using facial recognition technology to monitor attendance without the consent of parents, students, and the Department of Education, after a trial of the new technology in independent schools.
The technology has been likened to “Big Brother” by the Victorian Education Minister James Merlino following concerns about the software recording and storing students biometric data.
The company behind the software, LoopLearn, said student privacy is of utmost concern, as student’s faces are deleted from the software once they have been identified.