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A USEFUL LETTER
Denial and Withdrawal of Consent
-word ‘doc’ format
FACTSHEETS
Questions your school should answer
OFFICIAL ADVICE
The Information Commissioner’s Guidance on Biometric Data
Just to be quite sure about that guidance
Biometrics (Wikipedia)
RESOURCES
Deleting Data and Destroying Data
Kroll OnTrack can retrieve any data
Slough - What happens in the ‘delete’ bin
Reconstructing Fingerprints from numerical templates
Can Images be restored from templates?
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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.