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Title: New South Wales Education Department Caught Unaware After Microsoft
Teams Began Collecting Students' Biometric Data
Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/13312...
New submitter optical_phiber writes: In March 2025, the New South Wales (NSW)
Department of Education discovered that Microsoft Teams had begun collecting
students' voice and facial biometric data without their prior knowledge. This
occurred after Microsoft enabled a Teams feature called 'voice and face
enrollment' by default, which creates biometric profiles to enhance meeting
experiences and transcriptions via its CoPilot AI tool. The NSW department
learned of the data collection a month after it began and promptly disabled
the feature and deleted the data within 24 hours. However, the department did
not disclose how many individuals were affected or whether they were
notified. Despite Microsoft's policy of retaining data only while the user is
enrolled and deleting it within 90 days of account deletion, privacy experts
have raised serious concerns. Rys Farthing of Reset Tech Australia criticized
the unnecessary collection of children's data, warning of the long-term risks
and calling for stronger protections.
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