how report "Vedomosti", all Russian schools are planned to be equipped with smart cameras with face recognition function. Information about the purchase of such devices is already available on the public procurement website. The customer was the regional education departments, and the contractor was the National Center for Informatization (a division of Rostec).
In the first phase of the new initiative, cameras will be installed inside and outside 1608 public schools in 12 regions, later such a system will appear in all schools in Russia (the number of which exceeds 43 thousands).
Each school will have about 20 cameras that will connect to the Orwell computer vision system. She will compare the faces of the people in the video with lists of students, parents and teachers. Over time, such a system will replace the usual roll call, and data on class attendance in the future are going to be integrated into an electronic diary.
Data about students and their parents will be placed in the database only with written consent to the processing of personal data. All databases will be stored exclusively locally in schools.
The Internet reacted to this ambiguously. Many are concerned about the possible massive collection of data, some consider the name of the system suspicious and ironic. What do you think?