UK schools fingerprinted over 800k kids, third without parents’ consent
Call it ’function creep’ or call it compliance through mass habituation, but gathering biometric data on children without parental consent (or even with it) is undoubtedly a slippery slope towards total control over the actions and movements of all people.
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More than One million pupils fingerprinted at school
From: Big Brother Watch
As the new school term gets underway, now is the time for parents to check if their children are among the hundreds of thousands of pupils who are using biometric technology.
Today we have published our latest report looking at the use of biometric technology in secondary schools and academies which, based on data from the 2012-13 academic year, makes clear that fingerprints were taken from more than one million pupils.
You can read the report here.
Our research, gathered from Freedom of Information Requests to more than 3,000 schools, shows that at the start of the academic year 2012-13:
An estimated 40% of schools in England are using biometric technology
An estimated 31% of schools did not consult parents before enrolling children into a biometric system prior to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 becoming law
Based on these figures, we estimate potentially as many as 1.28 million pupils have been fingerprinted at school, many without parental permission first being granted.
Going to school should not mean kids are taught they have no privacy, especially at a time when we are sharing more data about ourselves than ever before. Fingerprinting them and tracking what they do might save some admin work but the risk is pupils think it is normal to be tracked like this all the time. Schools need to be transparent about what data is being collected and how it is used.
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Read the full article at: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
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Charles Farrier - No CCTV, Campaign Against Big Brother Camera Surveillance
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