RE: Tech Report - Facial Recognition Coming to a Classroom Near You!
I'll be honest privacy in some cases is overrated, the only people that need that much privacy is probably because they are doing something that they shouldn't do... this is just my opinion of course, and I'm only speaking about normal countries, in bad corrupt countries having some sort of privacy from the government should be a must!
Speaking about this case in particular, teachers don't need to do a roll call the same minute the class starts, they can do it while students make exercises, etc... My math teacher never asked name by name, he knew our names and knew who was in the class and who wasn't... Spending huge amounts of money just to "save" 2.5hours per week when they could save that time by teachers adopting another roll call system is, to me, stupid... Damn, just make it so students always sit at the same table, print a piece of paper with each sit and each name and in there would be no need to do it, with just 1 glance at the room they would know who was in or who wasn't...
I agree with your thoughts about roll call. I know privacy can seem over rated but its also an important aspect of being truly free. In an information age so much is about having the right information at the right time. If we don't do anything bad, we have nothing to be afraid of right? Not necessarily, with your personal information in their hands large corporations will implement better approaches towards influencing you to buy their products and use their services, ways that may be subliminal in many regards. Privacy is underrated until we have none left at all. Thanks for your thoughts.