Facial recognition to eat lunch? Why stop there, you cowards!?

Facial recognition has arrived in school canteens. Nine schools in Scotland have started taking lunch payments from schoolchildren by scanning their faces, the Financial Times reports. The system reportedly speeds up the lengthy payment process and is more Covid-secure than using cards and fingerprint scanners.  Of course, these issues could have been resolved by making school lunches free. But why invest in healthy meals for children when you can splurge on technosolutionism instead? In fact, facial recognition could solve practically every social problem. Here are just a few examples: Mental health issues There’s supposedly a mental health crisis in the…

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