RegardingID Archive | Schools fingerprint your kids: High-tech security or an invasion of privacy?

Monday, January 14, 2008

Parents in Phoenix, Arizona are concerned over the fingerprinting of their children at school without their permission. Espiritu schools are using biometric technology to track school lunches for federal aid. The school admits they never notified the parents they were scanning the children’s fingerprints and storing them in a school computer. The images are stored as a mathematical logarithm. Two states have outlawed the fingerprinting of children (Michigan and Iowa) and Illinois has enacted guidelines that make it illegal to sell the data and require parents’ permission.

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Jakarta airport opens biometric immigration gate

In an effort to streamline passenger security, Jakarta, Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta Airport has opened the country’s first biometric immigration gate.

Fingerprint biometric identification provider BIO-key International, Inc. and Oakwell Engineering Limited partnered to create the new gate, designed for use by passengers with electronic passports. Passengers submit their e-passports and authenticate with a fingerprint.

Alabama schools in pilot program to track students riding buses

The Huntsville, Ala. school district is conducting a pilot program that will track when and where students get on and off the bus. Currently, three schools–an elementary, middle and high school–are involved in the pilot.

Survey: French want fingerprint payments

A recent survey conducted by Wincor Nixdorf shows that a strong majority of French consumers are interested in using fingerprint scanning technology to secure transactions.

Finger scanning utilized at two West Virginia high schools

High schools in Jefferson County, W.V. will be implementing biometric finger scanning in an effort to provide security for the students’ cafeteria accounts. Purpose of the program, according to school officials, is to eliminate clerical errors and to provide students with an easy way to identify themselves when using the cafeteria.

Ohio elementary school gets biometric cafeterias

Munroe Elementary School in Tallmadge, Ohio is upgrading its cafeteria to be cash-free when the students return form winter break relying instead on biometrics for students to access accounts for their food, according to a Tallmadge Express article.

West Virginia county schools implementing biometric solution

Schools in Taylor County in West Virginia are integrating biometric systems into their school lunch programs in an effort to stream line processes among other purposes, according to a Mountain Statesman article.

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Schools fingerprint your kids: High-tech security or an invasion of privacy?