Thumbs Down
Thumbs Down began when I received a letter from my daughter’s school informing me that the school library was to be run with a biometric access system. It became apparent that the Infants’ School had been fingerprinting the children for several years without parental consent.
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There are many reasons to recoil from biometrics in schools
There are civil rights questions, issues surrounding security and identity theft, reliability, consent, data abuse, data access, cost and more. In my opinion, each of these are sufficient to give pause before introducing or continuing the use of a biometric identity system.
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THUMBS DOWN to Biometrics
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Letters, Leaflets and Guidance
Data, Security and Risk: Thinking
About What The Sales Team Said
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