High School in China Installs Facial Recognition Cameras to Monitor Students’ Attentiveness

A student at Hangzhou Number 11 High School gets his face scanned before retrieving books from the classroom library, in Hangzhou City in eastern China. Screenshot via Sina

A high school in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province located on the eastern coast of China, has employed facial recognition technology to monitor students’ attentiveness in class.

At Hangzhou Number 11 High School, three cameras at the front of the classroom scan students’ faces every 30 seconds, analyzing their facial expressions to detect their mood, according to a May 16 report in the state-run newspaper The Paper.