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Nine schools in the UK will start taking payments for cafeteria lunches by scanning students’ faces. The technology should minimize touch during the pandemic, meant to speed up transaction times. CRB Cunningham argued the systems would address privacy and security concerns, noted its hardware wasn’t using live facial recognition (actively scanning crowds), and was checking against encrypted faceprint templates.. Schools were already using fingerprint readers.