Efficiency vs privacy threat — Andhra govt, employees spar over facial recognition attendance app


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Currently, government employees in Andhra Pradesh use an Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system to mark their attendance. The government had introduced the facial recognition based system in schools last year to track teachers’ attendance, but even that had been met with backlash. This is not just an attendance system but we want to develop it as an e-employee record. So, facial recognition was brought in as a foolproof attendance system, he claimed. They’ve already started using facial recognition in some schools to take students’ attendance, but will this help them in development in any way?