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For example, many schools in East Anglia were recently persuaded to purchase costly visitor management software with high recurring annual subscription fees as a substitute for visitor registration books which, the company suggested, did not comply with GDPR. This expensive and unnecessary system includes biometric storage of visitors’ facial images, which raises questions of consent. I have described to the House before seeing a similar system trained on white faces unable to take a photograph as it did not recognise a black visitor as human. The waterfall of implications is extensive: to privacy, to fairness and to school budgets. A code of minimum standards for management products would avoid that.