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‘Really alarming’: the rise of smart cameras used to catch maskless students in US schools
Schools brought in surveillance cameras to monitor mask compliance and other Covid risks – and while masks are on their way out, the cameras aren’t
When students in suburban Atlanta returned to school for in-person classes amid the pandemic, they were required to mask up, like in many places across the US. Yet in this 95,000-student district, officials took mask compliance a step further than most.
Through a network of security cameras, officials harnessed artificial intelligence to identify students whose masks drooped below their noses.
Read the original article at The Guardian