RealNetworks launched a website yesterday that allows schools in North America to download and implement its face recognition software for free.
The trial: Called SAFR, the tech is currently being tested at a school in Seattle that the founder, Rob Glaser’s, kids attend.
What it does: The program monitors who is coming onto campus. For the Seattle trial, parents of students at the school register their faces with the software, which allows them to unlock a gate by smiling at a surveillance camera.
The controversy: Glaser sees his software as a way to improve safety in schools that circumvents the touchy subject of gun control legislation. But it’s likely to find itself in the middle of another debate, over whether the deployment of face recognition tech needs to be regulated. Glaser told Wired: ”In a country where there have been so many tragic incidents in schools, technology that makes it easier to keep schools safer is fundamentally a good thing.”
SOURCE:MIT DOWNLOAD
The trial: Called SAFR, the tech is currently being tested at a school in Seattle that the founder, Rob Glaser’s, kids attend.
What it does: The program monitors who is coming onto campus. For the Seattle trial, parents of students at the school register their faces with the software, which allows them to unlock a gate by smiling at a surveillance camera.
The controversy: Glaser sees his software as a way to improve safety in schools that circumvents the touchy subject of gun control legislation. But it’s likely to find itself in the middle of another debate, over whether the deployment of face recognition tech needs to be regulated. Glaser told Wired: ”In a country where there have been so many tragic incidents in schools, technology that makes it easier to keep schools safer is fundamentally a good thing.”
SOURCE:MIT DOWNLOAD
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