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Whilst the facial recognition aspect of this and the Chinese tie-ins with total monitoring of its populace are one aspect, in schools (at least in Australia, and I assume many others) large amounts of centralised data on behaviour, performance, etc are stored about students by their teachers already.

One of the comments here makes it sound all so personal, as if that information never leaves the classroom and is only the domain of the teacher, but it isn't - it's shared with other teachers, heads of year, deputies and principals, school psychologists, government departments, and to some extent (usually in the aggregate) with parents.

Throw some automation in the mix for scale (along with all the issues with correct facial identification - which as teachers we're not immune to either!) and we have the same thing.