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