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>> 10 Things You Should Know About Schools Fingerprinting Children <<"Britain may have to give up some of its freedoms in the short term in order to protect them in the long term." John Reid, Home Secretary, August 10 2006 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Latest Updates 06-08-2006 Gordon Brown plans massive expansion of ID cards project, The Observer 31-07-2006 The Yorkshire Post and NO2ID report that Tony Blair addressed Rupert Murdoch's News Corps in Pebble Beach, California. Blair's speech about leadership laid out his thinking on world affairs and the forces that leaders like him must fight. Blair said: "NGOs and pressure groups with single causes can be benevolent but can also exercise a kind of malign tyranny over the public debate." What led him to this conclusion? Perhaps its his surprise at fact that not everyone shares his vision of a numbered, fingerprinted and surveilled society. Blair hinted at his thinking when he said: "It is, to me at least, almost incredible that the proposal to introduce an identity register in the UK should be so extraordinarily controversial. But it is." Yes it is, in fact some people believe that Blair's vision is, well, a malign tyranny. |
21-07-2006 Guantanamo firm enters schools The Times Educational Supplement, July 21, 2006 Company connected with notorious US army interrogations is taking British pupils' fingerprints.
04-08-2006 I JUST FOUND OUT MY CHILD WAS FINGERPRINTED 3 YEARS AGO!!!
23-07-2006 A school dismisses parents' fears with total contempt
07-07-2006 SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL UNLESS WE FINGERPRINT YOU!!
16-07-2006 School in data row over plan to fingerprint pupils The Guardian, Saturday July 15, 2006
15-07-2006 The Case Against Mass Fingerprinting ADULTS in schools Professor Steven E. Barkan, criminologist, University of Maine
13-07-2006 WE WON'T ANSWER PARENTS' QUESTIONS,14-07-2006 What I would have done in the headmaster's shoes
a personal view by Cambridge Resident Thomas Mead
12-07-2006 Junior Librarian works better WITHOUT thumbprint scanner, claims parent
03-07-2006 Junior Librarian firm issue press release "Identikit biometric solution encourages school library lending". But yet again they fail to back up this optimistic claim with any independent research that proves thumbprinting has a lasting beneficial effect on learning. The release includes just one quote from one teacher at one school! Having already earned more than £1 million just from fingerprinting primary school children, and with more than £4000 of school fingerprint money a week coming in on top, surely they can do better than this!
12-07-2006 May we take your children's photo? "We have decided" to fingerprint them.
09-07-2006 ID cards doomed, say officials
09-07-2006 Emails from Whitehall officials in charge of ID cards, The Sunday Times July 09, 2006
08-07-2006 A message of support from our MP, David Howarth
09-07-2006 PEOPLE TO BE 'CHIPPED'?, The Register
09-07-2006 Subdermal RFID chip provokes furore, The Register
09-07-2006 Fun stuff - a little bit of latin!
07-07-2006 Do Biometrics have a role for school registration?
by Andy Clymer, computer security expert
(8 years with Cisco Systems, Visa, Fidelity, Merrill Lynch, etc)
05-07-2006 Please tell a friend how primary schools are
fingerprinting young children without asking
03-07-2006 Fingerprint Scandal Of 700,000 Kids The Daily Mirror, 3 July 2006
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"In my opinion... you should be asking 'should primary schools be fingerprinting our children at all?' Especially when you say that it is done at extra and unnecessary cost." Professor Peter F. Fisher, Department of Information Science, City University; Editor, International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
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We are campaigning to have the widespread use of biometrics in schools debated in Parliament, and henceforth strictly regulated and closely monitored, with a statutory requirement for explicit parental consent wherever biometrics are used.
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