The University of Kentucky has installed Alcatraz AI facial-recognition scanners at several Lexington residence halls for a test. Participation is voluntary for now; the company says the system is meant to help security detect tailgating.
CEO Tina D’Agostin told WKYT that Rock stores geometric maps of faces, not images, and that Alcatraz holds no names or personal identifiers. The article notes that a school database could still link profiles to identities and argues that someone could still tailgate a resident after a scan.
