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WARNING: Some computer security experts feel that in the future it will be possible for
the information stored on school biometric systems to be used to steal your child's identity
 
 
 
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"There are basically three types of people who support these schemes: useful idiots, those who hope to profit from them, and those who seek greater control over people. If you have to give your fingerprint or iris scan to cash a check, you may have little choice but to give up that information. If that biometric data can be used to access your other personal data such as credit status or religious or political affiliation or similar, then those who run the machines control your life. And, they may be starting with children with the intent of raising a generation used to lack of privacy." read more from this blog
 
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"Have thousands of school kids been breaking the law? No, they only want to use the library. In a costly, nationwide scheme, school libraries are replacing 'old-fashioned' barcoded library cards with a new system that requires children to have their biometric ID recorded and stored. This includes fingerprints and mugshots and personal information about your own child. The government is implementing this million pound project...to solve the problem of lost library cards. And here's me thinking it was to soften up society's next generation for when Britian becomes a biometric battlefield." read more from this blog
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"The intention is clearly to fingerprint us all. Starting from children as young as 3 when they go into their school library and soon to be 11+ when you go to get your passport. Does this mean then that by default we are now all "bad" citizens? For young innocent children to be fingerprinted for anything, is like saying: we'll just take your fingerprints for when you are bad and telling lies in the future. The whole thing is appalling. But what I think is worse is that they dress it all up as 'security' for us citizens." read more from this blog
 
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"Why not start fingerprinting all pupils, taking their DNA, putting surveillance cameras in the classroom and forcing them to not let their bags unattended or else they will be blown up by a SWAT team? By establishing this kind of stuff in schools, you create little monsters and authority-obeying subjects, not people who have fun being curious and learning." read more from this blog
 
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"When I was younger, if you came home and told your parents that you had been fingerprinted - it meant only one thing: that the police had stopped/arrested you, taken you to the police station and fingerprinted you. It was a bad thing, almost certainly a shameful thing. If I got fingerprinted now, I would still think I had done something wrong. Worse than that, I would think that I was a liar too. Obviously the authorities don't believe what I'm telling them when I say it's me, so they are going to check my fingerprints just to make sure!!" read more from this blog
 
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"What we as campaigners are increasingly finding hard to comprehend is how the Department for Education fails to understand the difference between data that has a relatively short validity and immutable data that last a lifetime (I can't ever change my fingerprint)." read more from this blog
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"You know you are in a police state, when children are having their fingerprints taken without having committed a crime." read more
 
 
  
 
"Education, Education, Education" Tony Blair (1996)    "Consent, Consent, Consent" Concerned parents (2007)  
 
 We are campaigning for the widespread use of biometrics in UK schools to be debated in Parliament, strictly regulated and
closely monitored, with statutory requirements for explicit informed parental consent where children's biometrics are taken  
 
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