Facial recognition replaces class register in Swedish trial
A school in Sweden is using facial recognition technology to replace the class register.
Students’ faces are scanned by a camera when they enter the classroom at the school in Skellefteå.
Trialled this autumn, teachers are happy to continue with the time-saving method.
One calculation says that teachers at this high school use a total of 17,000 hours a year for attendance reporting.
It was the main reason for the experiment, says Rector Jörgen Malm, who thinks that it worked well and that the technology was “quite safe”.
Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/2019/01/16/facial-recognition-replaces-class-register-in-swedish-trial