anarcho-socialist-latina:

property-is-theft:

wilwheaton:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Next year, high schools in Lockport New York will use the “Aegis” CCTV
and facial recognition system to track and record the interactions of
students suspected of code of conduct violations, keeping a ledger of
who speaks to whom, where, and for how long.

The record will be used to assemble evidence against students and identify possible accomplices to ascribe guilt to.

Lockport Superintendent Michelle T. Bradley justified the decision by
noting, “We always have to be on our guard. We can’t let our guard
down.”

Lockport will be the first school district in the world to subject its
students to this kind of surveillance. The program will cost $1.4m in
state money. The technology supplier is SN Technologies of Ganonoque,
Ont., one of the companies in the vicinity of Kingston, Ontario, home to
the majority of the province’s detention centers.

The Lockport district says that the system will make students safer by
alerting officials if someone on a sex-offender registry or terrorist
watchlist enters the property. None of America’s school shootings or
high-profile serial sex abuse scandals were carried out by wanted
terrorists or people on the sex-offender registry.

Deployed law-enforcement facial recognition systems have failure rates of 98%.
The vendor responsible for Aegis would not disclose how they improved
on the state of the art, but insisted that their product worked “99.97%
of the time.” The spokesperson would not disclose any of the workings of
the system, seemingly believing that doing so was antithetical to
security.

The consultant who advised Lockport to spend $1.4m on the Aegis system,
Tony Olivo, is listed as a “partner” of the vendor receiving the $1.4m
in tax money; according to Lockport Superintendent Michelle T. Bradley,
Olivo did not ask to be paid by the school district for this advice.
Olivo says he also isn’t being paid a commission by the Aegis vendor.
Olivo also consults for the nearby Depew school system, which is also
committed to purchasing Aegis with tax money. Despite refusing to
disclose any technical details about Aegis, Olivo said, “There is
nothing in the world that can do what this technology does.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/05/21/kafka-high.html

This is horrifying.

Dystopia is already here

Schools are preliminary prisons.