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Translated from swedish: A swedish hight school did a pilot with a class with 22 pupils with facial recognition for taking attendance. The school is fined with 20 000 USD for invading the pupils privacy. All pupils has agreed to participate but that doesn't matter since the pupils is dependent to the school, they cannot agree to something like this.

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Probably most important: they didn't bother to ask the supervisory authority before they started their tests, with Datainspektionen only learning of the pilot trough the media.

I think asking for permission rather than forgiveness doesn't work as well when you are part of a government agency.

Wow. Sweden has profoundly misapplied the concept of privacy when it is no longer possible for a person to voluntarily yield privacy for a project they find interesting.

Sweden is, on the other hand, not the only country that doesn't let minors or people in a position of dependence "voluntarily" yield anything. The problem in those cases is that it's hard to determine how voluntary the yielding actually is.

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