Some Minnesota school districts are getting on the biometrics bandwagon, enabling students to use their fingerprints to get a meal in the cafeteria or to check out a book from the library. At one school, according to the article in the Pioneer Press, the fingerprints, which are stored as a numeric template, can also be used to identify students when they get their medication in the nurse’s office or go to a school dance. Read the complete story here. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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