Security News > 2021 > August > Army Testing Facial Recognition in Child-Care Centers

Live video feeds of daycare centers are common, but the Army wants to take their kid-monitoring capabilities to the next level.

Under a new pilot program being rolled out at a Fort Jackson, S.C. child-care center, the military is looking for service providers to layer commercially available facial recognition and artificial intelligence over existing closed-circuit television video feeds to improve childcare and cut costs.

The request for bids on the project, called Installations of the Future: Technology Pilot for Child Development Center, explained that the CCTV feeds aren't constantly monitored by humans and the pilot program will explore whether AI could fill in the gaps.

"Video analytic software provides the added security of continual computer monitoring used as an addition to the human CCTV monitoring," the request for bid said.

Other requirements include following the Security Technical Guides, submission to Static Application Security Testing for source code analysis, and an obligation to provide patching and mitigation support.

Not only have facial-recognition algorithms been easily fooled, they've been decried as a privacy nightmare by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued to the Department of Homeland Security in March 2020 over its use of facial recognition in airports.

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