If a child is old enough he/she may try to hide emotions. If the teacher wants to check no pupils are missing and there is not normally empty seats all the teacher needs to do is check that there is no empty seats. It’s not just a breach of privacy. Surely it could have impact on children in other ways. Perhaps they could become shy / introverted / very nervous —- could any of them become so stressed they develop a mental health issue?

Hopefully this does not come to Australia as I think it is a bit too much.

You could achieve the same result with a teacher looking at the students.

It is definitely too much,l don’t see the reason why!

It is morally wrong! What happened if this database for in the wrong hands or hacked.

This seems excessive – some monitoring maybe, but this is too detailed.

What exactly dot hey do with this data is my question?

This crosses the line of privacy and is totally intrusive. So the program recognizes 7 different facial expressions, it’s just a computer. Some people have facial features which make them look amazed or angry all the time because of the position of the eyebrows for example. Next they conclude they can read the mind ! Crazy !!

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 03 Jun 2018 , 6:09 am

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  I agree – facial expressions do vary and surely not all fit patterns of conformity. I also have concerns about humans rights!

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    • • cherz replied
      • 03 Jun 2018 , 3:09 pm

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    This is a very good point you have raised.

I wonder if this would stop any bad incidents from happening, or just help in investigations afterwards.

This is both ridiculous and uncalled for – definitely a breach of privacy!

Scary overtones of Big Brother and not something I would welcome at all!

A complete invasion of privacy & control method but it suits a country such as China whose political system is based on Communism. It is also grooming children for their future under that form of politics but I doubt it would be accepted in democratic countries.

I personally wouldn’t like it, if it was done to me.

For me it’s breach of privacy.

Why would you even need this level of monitoring on school kids? It’s beyond me sometimes

It would be interesting to see what China does with the analyzed data.
Obviously I go toward the privacy and invasion piece, though if the data is secure then I think about the possibilities.
There are program analytics that can pin point when someone lies. So if a program could identify the course content and the child mean behaviors then it would allow teachers to better educate the students. It would enable the schools to produce better programs.

This is a bit over the top and definitely open to abuse.

Personal privacy is important but I believe everyone’s safety is a bigger priority.