A girl carries a school lunch tray.
A high school in southeast England illegally used facial recognition technology to take cashless lunch payments from students aged 11-18.
  • A school in England broke the law for using facial recognition technology for lunch payments.
  • The UK's data protection regulator reprimanded the school for not assessing the risks to the students' information.
  • An internet law professor has warned of issues surrounding bias and the onward use of data collected.

A school in England broke the law when it introduced facial recognition technology to take student lunch payments.