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Nine schools in Scotland have today started using facial recognition on students to speed up school lunchtimes.
The system, which has been implemented at sites across North Ayrshire, Scotland from today, will allow schools to take payments from children using facial recognition.
It is said to speed up transactions and reduce queues and is also considered to be a more hygienic approach than card payments and fingerprints in a post-Covid world.
However, parents and campaigners have expressed concerns regarding the privacy of children, and believe students haven't been properly warned about the potential dangers of facial recognition.
Twitter was awash with people responding to the news.
@NckDrk wrote: 'Spending money on facial recognition in schools just in case a kid steals a meal rather than just spending that money on giving kids free school meals is obviously completely normal and logical'
The system, which has been implemented in nine schools across North Ayrshire, Scotland, will allow schools to take payments from children using facial recognition (file image)
Parent Nick Payne said: 'My kids' school uses a fingerprint ID system for canteen payments, which works fine & isn't anywhere near as sinister.
So why can't they just do that, rather than going for facial recognition - which also has significant issues with non-white faces?'
Caroline Kenyon added: 'Surely we need air filtration units in schools, not face
