Some backgound articles
- Primary school fingerprint firm now worth £8 million Managing Information, 2 August 2006
"The size of the UK market means there remains significant opportunity for growth."
- Nurseries are exactly the kind of businesses that franchisees will target Franchise Magazine, January 2007
- Murdered schoolboy ad banned The Guardian, 16 November 2005
- Murder e-mail advert criticised BBC News, 16 November 2005
- Parent company of Vericool school fingerprinting firm The Center For Public Integrity
- More on Vericool's US Parent company Washington Technology, 10 May 2004
- School fingerprint CEO honoured for outstanding contributions to US national defence
US Army Association, 28 September 2005
More coverage, in (reverse) date order ( Click here for more )
- `Kiddyprinting' takes off in Scots schools Sunday Herald, 12 October 2007
- Should schools fingerprint kids? The Atlanta Journal, 02 October 2007
- Fingerprinting kids for school lunch p2pNet News, 02 October 2007
- Kids Age 5 Get Prints Scanned At School Daily Record, 02 October 2007
- Turlock schools quit lunch fingerprinting The Modesto Bee, 30 September 2007
- Fingerprint scheme set to expand Perthshire Advertiser, 28 September 2007
- School Backs Down Over 'Big Brother' Library Plan The Cornishman, 27 September 2007
- Should schools fingerprint your kids? Time, 25 September 2007
- Looking for (parents') Fingerprints NovoMetro, 25 September 2007
- Fingerprinting, at what cost to students' privacy? Daily Southtown, 17 September 2007
- Parents set to take schools to court ChildrenNow, 12 September 2007
- Identity data in schools targeted BBC News, 10 September 2007
- High technology off menu Chicago Tribune, 10 September 2007
- Victory Against School Biometrics in Illinois Electronic Frontier Foundation, 10 September 2007
- Schools to fingerprint students for security The Age (Australia), 02 September 2007
- School fingerprints pupils Y-Net News (Israel), 02 September 2007
- Chabad school fingerprints pupils - talkback Y-Net News (Israel), 02 September 2007
- Fingerprinting Is Over The Top Gloucestershire Echo, 21 August 2007
- Is it right to fingerprint our children? Gloucestershire Echo, 21 August 2007
- Schools can carry on fingerprinting Yorkshire Press, 01 August 2007
- Schools using biometric fingerprint technology in ID cards for children Enfield Advertiser, 01 August 2007
- MPs outraged by pupil fingerprinting ComputerActive, 30 July 2007
- MP attacks fingerprints plan for school children Cambridge Evening News, 27 July 2007
- 4 Year Olds Now Being Fingerprinted Western Mail, 27 July 2007
- Pupil fingerprinting in schools is unnecessary, intrusive and insecure eGov Monitor, 25 July 2007
- Schools biometric guidance 'lacks clarity' KableNet, 24 July 2007
- Schools get rules on biometrics BBC News, 23 July 2007
- Children as young as five to be fingerprinted in schools Daily Mail, 23 July 2007
- Becta gives schools biometric data guidance The Register, 23 July 2007
- Parents must be consulted before fingerprints are taken LibDems, 23 July 2007
- College will scan youngsters' thumb prints Rutland Mercury, 13 July 2007
- Fury at school's fingerprint plans Matlock Mercury, 12 July 2007
- School scans children's prints BBC News, 04 July 2007
- School adopts fingerprint canteen Eastern Daily Press, 21 June 2007
- Is your child being fingerprinted? This Is Hertfordshire, 20 June 2007
- Schools can take pupils' fingerprints Daily Telegraph, 18 June 2007
- Fingerprinting and eye scans for children as young as five Independent, 17 June 2007
- Schools fingerprint pupils without guidance Daily Telegraph, 04 June 2007
- Call for controls on school fingerprinting Guardian, 04 June 2007
- 300+ schools fingerprinting their pupils Daily Mail, 04 June 2007
- 1m pupils' dabs filed in schools The Sun, 04 June 2007
- Irish schools lining up to fingerprint pupils Indymedia, 23 May 2007
- School biometrics in Nottinghamshire Indymedia, 21 May 2007
- Board of Education backs off biometric timeclock program for teachers Walton Tribune, 13 May 2007
- A look into our schools' futures? Nottingham Evening Post, 11 May 2007
- Data Protection Commissioner issues biometric guidelines ElectricNews, 08 May 2007
- Does School's Fingerprinting Violate Religious Rights? WDSU LA, 07 May 2007
- Schools fingerprinting kids without parents' consent PC Pro, 11 April 2007
- UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprinting ZDNet editorial, 11 April 2007
- Big Brother creeps into British schools New Zealand Herald, 10 April 2007
- School fingerprinting needs control, says MP Daily Telegraph, 09 April 2007
- Schools' bid to fingerprint kids The Sun, 09 April 2007
- Schoolchildren to be fingerprinted in Big Brother-style shake-up Evening Standard, 09 April 2007
- Warning on school fingerprinting ePolitix, 09 April 2007
- Some see scans for lunch as taste of Big Brother Boston Globe, 04 April 2007
- Ireland pounces on school fingerprinters The Register, 23 March 2007
- School 'prints upset in Lords York Press, 21 March 2007
- Row after kids fingerprinted Sheffield Today, 15 March 2007
- ID Refusniks To Be Prisoners In Their Own Country InfoWars, 13 March 2007
- Students Tricked In Fingerprint 'game' United Press International, 12 March 2007
- Harmless technology or thin end of the wedge? Cambridge Evening News, 12 March 2007
- Scan ban? Taunton Gazette, 7 March 2007
- 'Sinister' government plan to fingerprint children aged 11-15 Yorkshire Post, 5 March 2007
- UK government wants to fingerprint kids The Register, 5 March 2007
- Ministers clash over 'sinister' plans to fingerprint children Scotsman, 5 March 2007
- Children aged 11 to have prints stored Evening Standard, 4 March 2007
- Children's prints to be held on database The Scotsman, 4 March 2007
- Parents wary of fingerprint ID system in schools Pacific Daily News, 2 March 2007
- Fears over fingerprinting pupils Sudbury Today, 1 March 2007
- School scan plan draws ACLU's eye , Taunton Gazette, 1 March 2007
- Alarm at 83 schools fingerprinting pupils - in Suffolk alone! East Anglian Daily Times, 26 February 2007
- Campaigners slam child fingerprinting
Evening Star, 26 February 2007
- Secretive USA Patriot Act could compel students' data disclosure Canada.com, 23 February 2007
- Grammar school's £2.5m fingerprint and CCTV boarding house Lancashire Evening Post, 23 February 2007
- Computerized Lip-Reading Crime Fighters TechNovelgy, 23 February 2007
- Onboard Threat Detection System For Big Brother Airlines TechNovelgy, 18 February 2007
- Biometric system developers branded worse than thieves Security Park, 15 February 2007
- RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag TechNovelgy, 14 February 2007
- Pupils' fingerprint info 'destroyed' Tottenham Journal, 14 February 2007
- Kiddyprinting - huge implications involved Scunthorpe Telegraph, 13 February 2007
- Automatic License Plate Recognition Goes Mobile TechNovelgy, 13 February 2007
- Privacy watchdog calls for consultation over fingerprinting The Argus, 12 February 2007
- "All kids will have to do it" says US school fingerprint boss Taunton Gazette, 12 February 2007
- Schools 'not obliged to follow fingerprint advice' Yorkshire Post, 9 February 2007
- 'Tell parents' about pupil fingerprinting ComputerActive, 9 February 2007
- Parents blast school fingerprint boss The Register (letters), 9 February 2007
- Biometric guide for British schools IT Web (Johannesburg), 8 February 2007
- 3,500 schools now use finger print scanners in 'Big Brother state by stealth' Evening Standard, 8 Feb 2007
- Parental consent sought for gathering of biometric data of schoolchildren EU Reporter, 8 February 2007
- Fresh advice in school fingerprint row York Press, 8 February 2007
- School row over pupils' fingerprints Tottenham Journal, 8 February 2007
- Unions fear 'geoslavery' as biometrics spread Australian IT, 7 February 2007
- Debate continues on children's biometric data in schools Public Technology, 6 February 2007
- Covert Iris Scanner Close To Minority Report Future TechNovelgy, 6 February 2007
- Kids have a right to all school data, says privacy chief Out-Law.com, 5 February 2007
- Thumbing for lunch Daily Southtown, 5 February 2007
- Fingerprint recognition in high schools Expatica, 5 February 2007
- School fingerprinter repents The Register, 2 February 2007
- Fingerprint schools don't fear new guidelines Portsmouth Today, 1 February 2007
- Schools need consent to fingerprint kids? The Register, 31 January 2007
- Children of Big Brother The Argus, 31 January 2007
- Schools advised to seek consent before fingerprinting The Guardian, 30 January 2007
- Parliament won't debate school fingerprinting The Register, 29 January 2007
- Schools face legal warning The Press, 29 January 2007
- School fingerprinters say they don't grab teaching cash The Register, 26 January 2007
- Big Brother storms the playground The First Post, 24 January 2007
- School praises finger-print technology This Is Lancashire, 23 January 2007
- MPs investigate school fingerprinting The Register, 20 January 2007
- Parents gain MPs' backing over school fingerprinting The Register, 17 January 2007
- Info Commissioner: Too late to stop school fingerprinting The Register, 17 January 2007
- US wants all your fingerprints The Register, 15 January 2007
- School fingerprinting guide due BBC News, 12 January 2007
- Parents in fingerprint victory The Sun, 12 January 2007 - LTKA and the DfES have both denied this report
- Another school in fingerprints row York Press, 12 January 2007
- UK to review school fingerprinting The Register, 12 January 2007
- Fingerprinting In Kent Schools Kent LibDems, 11 January 2007
- Kids use fingerprints to pay for lunch Manchester Evening News, 10 January 2007
- Schools fingerprinting 5 year olds York Press (150+ readers' comments), 8 January 2007
- Civil liberties implications of using fingerprinting scanning systems in school ACLU, 8 January 2007
- School scan plan draws ACLU's eye Taunton Gazette, 3 January 2007
- Should we allow Big Brother in schools? Vision (from Futurelab), December 2006
- identiMetrics scoops school LunchTime deal biometrics.co.uk, 12 December 2006
- High school in Irvine drops plan to scan fingerprints LA Times, 7 December 2006
- High school in Irvine drops plan to scan fingerprints LA Times, 6 December 2006
- Plans to scan student fingerprints called off Orange County Register, 6 December 2006
- School fingerprint plans reviewed BBC Scotland, 28 November 2006
- Fingerprinting pupils? Hands Off! - A school governor writes Guardian, 21 November 2006
- Halt to school fingerprinting The Register, 9 November 2006
- Would You Let Them Scan Your Child? CBN News, 5 November 2006
- California Schools to Fingerprint Students ABC News, 5 November 2006
- Biometric scans served up with school meals The Scotsman, 27 October 2006
- Identity, voting and missing fingers The Register (letters), 27 October 2006
- Criminal link holds back fingerprint acceptance ZdNet (Australia), 20 October 2006
- MPs condemn school fingerprinting The Register, 17 October 2006
- Fingerprint control for school food The Times, 13 October 2006
- What did you do at school today? "I had my fingerprints taken." Virtual Lancaster, 7 October 2006
- Anger over fingerprint book scheme Lancashire Evening Post, 7 October 2006
- Parents prepare to sue fingerprint grabbers The Register, 6 October 2006
- School's fingerprint ID register BBC News, 6 October 2005
- Parents' anger at thumbprinting in local schools LakelandRadio, 30 September 2006
- Fingerprints 'just bit of fun' says school head teacher, 29 September 2006
- School fingerprint plans reviewed BBC News, 28 September 2006
- Nursery installs fingerprint scan BBC News, 26 September 2006
- Parents' shock at fingerprinting The Herts Advertiser, 21 September 2006
- Censorship, naughty teens, biometrics The Register (letters), 15 September 2006
- Pupils aged five being fingerprinted The Hertford Advertiser, 14 September 2006
- Teachers break silence on fingerprinting children The Register, 14 September 2006
- Fingerprints check at city school libraries The Scotsman, 12 September 2006
- School fingerprinting halted in Dundee The Evening Telegraph, 12 September 2006
- Civil rights row over school fingerprints The Herald, 11 September 2006
- Headmaster justifies fingerprinting pupils The Register, 11 September 2006
- Stuff your own ballot with children's fingerprints The Register (letters), 8 September 2006
- Mother's shock at school fingerprint scheme The Messenger, 7 September 2006
- Schools can fingerprint children without parental consent The Register, 7 September 2006
- An education in biometrics IT Weekly, 6 September 2006
- DfES implies 5-year-old kids may give informed consent for fingerprinting Yorkshire Post, 1 September 2006
- Fingerprints ensure kids are actually in classrooms The Register (letters), 1 September 2006
- Pupils' prints scanned The Citizen, 31 August 2006
- London school to fingerprint students The Register, 29 August 2006
- School eyes up fingerprinting Kable's Government Computing, 29 August 2006
- Alarming rise of Children's ID databases and biometrics in schools Athens Indymedia, 25 August 2006
- Parents In Uproar Over Printing Plan Scunthorpe Telegraph, 24 August 2006
- Anger over dabs plan for pupils Ilkeston Advertiser, 16 August 2006
- DfES implies primary school children can give fingerprint consent Liverpool Daily Post, 16 August 2006
- Gummi Bears Trick a Fingerprint Scanner PC World, 13 August 2006
- British children as young as 5 to be fingerprinted Civil Liberty UK, 5 August 2006
- Biometrics and digital identity FutureLab, 1 August 2006
- Concern as school takes children's prints The Yorkshire Post, 31 July 2006
- EU states to fingerprint children from day one of their life The Register, 31 July 2006
- Millions of children to be fingerprinted The Observer, 30 July 2006
- Children may be fingerprinted under EU passport plan The Daily Mail, 30 July 2006
- Fingerprint security at day nursery!! Northampton Today, 21 July 2006
- Crime of the future--biometric spoofing? ZDNet Asia, 21 July 2006
- Fingerprinting School Children Indymedia, Wednesday 5 July 2006
- Lisbon school moving to fingerprint ID Portland Press Herald, 19 June 2006
- School's U-turn on biometric library system London SE1, 15 June 2006
- Schools fingerprinting worries civil liberty groups The Times, 14 June 2006
- Schools fight fat with fingerprinting The Register, 14 June 2006
- Fingerprint scanner to check school pupils' eating habits 24dash, 13 June 2006
- Toddlers used in trial of identity biometrics Computer Weekly, 16 May 2006
- Concern as school takes children's prints The Yorkshire Post, 6 May 2006
- Fury at school fingerprinting The International Biometric Industry Association, 7 April 2006
- Print and be damned The Guardian (letters), 6 April 2006
- Protect people, not data net.wars, 1 April 2006
- Nursery installs fingerprint ID system Daily Telegraph, 19 January 2006
- In safe hands? Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 18 January 2006
- Biometrics and digital identity Futurelab, October 2005
- Irish college deploys fingerprint scanners The Register, 31 May 2005
- Passwords are history as school rolls-out fingerprint registration VNUnet, 26 May 2005
- Hands off our children's ID The Sutton Guardian, 10 March 2005
- Fingerprinting Students Crypto-Gram News, 15 January 2005
- Nifty gadget or something more sinister? The Guardian 11 January 2005
- Fingerprinting Students Bruce Schneier on Security, 11 January 2005
- 28000 students test e-tagging system News.com, 17 November 2004
- UK school drops 'world-beating' biometric scanner The Register, 15 September 2004
- Government Schools Fingerprint PupilsNewsMax, 27 Apr 2004
- Eye scan school opens doors BBC News, 17 September, 2003
- Learning to Live With Biometrics Wired News, 9 September 2003
- Liberty raps school fingerprint checks Manchester Evening News, 3 February 2004
- Fingerprinting and retina scans eyed up for schools The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 January 2003
- Eye scanners for school children BBC News, 8 January, 2003
- UK school plans retinal scans in the dinner queue The Register, 8 January 2003
- Fingerprinting Kids Unpopular in U.S. School Library Journal (Walter Minkel) 1 September 2002
- College Seeks Security in Thumbs Wired News, 6 August 2002
- A free country? The Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2002
- Schools in fingerprinting row BBC News, Tuesday, 23 July 2002
- Little Brother's fingerprints all over the library The Times 23 July 2002
- Schoolchildren's fingerprints - the assessment you must read Silicon.com, 23 July 2002
- Fingerprinting school kids 'is wrong' BBC News, 23 July 2002
- Schools Use Fingerprint IDs Sky News, 23 July 2002
- Fingerprint fuss over school libraries This is London, 23rd July 2002
- Row over finger-printing in schools BBC News, 22 July 2002
- UK schoolkids fingerprinted, prompting privacy concerns The Inquirer, 22 July 2002
- Fingerprinting of UK school kids causes outcry The Register, 22 July 2002
- Minnesota high school fingerprints pupils eSchoolNews, 1 September 2000
- The Case Against Mass Fingerprinting ADULTS in schools
Professor Steven E. Barkan, criminologist, University of Maine, 9 November 2002
- An Essay on Fingerprinting of (Adult) School Volunteers 2 August 2006
- Fingerprinting ADULTS in schools: A Touchy Subject The Booth Bay Register, 18 November 1999
- FBI to obtain library records from librarians Free-Market News, 13 December 2005
- With only a letter, FBI can gather private data USA Today, 7 June 2006
- Biometrics unreliable, says EU privacy head C-Net News, 15 March 2006
- Biometric sensors beaten senseless in tests The Register, 23 May 2002
- Doubt cast on fingerprint security BBC News, 17 May, 2002
- Would you trust a system that could be fooled with play-doh?? 11 September 2006
- German researchers reconstruct complete fingerprints, 12 October 2006
- Can Biometrics Increase Your Education Sales? Business Solutions, August 2006
- FBI to Store all Fingerprints of Visitors to the USA New Yorker, 9 January 2007
- Walt Disney World to start fingerprinting everyone News Initiative, 27 September 2006
- Motorists forced to give fingerprints BBC News, 22 November 2006
- A Mortgage? Give us your fingerprints The People, 7 January 2007
- If Your Fingerprints Aren't Down You're Not Coming In Infowars, 23 October 2006
- Clubs to begin fingerprint pilot BBC News, 27 April 2006
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- Teenagers wary of new children's database The Register, 12 September 2006
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- Children's Digital Rights The Open Rights Group , 21 September 2006
( Children's databases, active organisations and recent news links. )
- Cambridge Uni security experts worried about even more storage of our kids' details
on large, shared databases, 1 September 2006
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- Banks 'careless' with information BBC News, 13 March 2007
- Nationwide fine for stolen laptop BBC News, 14 February 2007
- Bank details on sale for a fiver thisismoney.co.uk, 2 October 2006
- Personal use of ID database by Government employees The Register, 28 August 2006
- Shadow Data - The Fifth Dimension of Data Security Risk Forensics International
- Pentagon recruiting kids with mass data mining scheme The Register, 23 June, 2005
- Heads spy on teachers The Register, 10 April 2006
- School puts CCTV in toilets Manchester Evening News, 7 February 2007
- School's Big Brother 'spycam' plan Portsmouth Today, 24 March, 2007
- 'Failures' targeted at birth Information Liberation, 17 Jul 2006
- Round up the youthful suspects! Government to target crime at birth The Register, 18 July 2006
- Toddlers targeted in new campaign The Observer, 16 July 2006
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- Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested The Independent, 29 June 2006
- Helen and Sylvia, the New Face of Terrorism The Independent, 6 April 2006
- Blair's Big Brother Legacy Vanity Fair, 19 June 2006
- The United States of total paranoia, The Times, 2 July 2006
- UK Watchdog Sounds Alarm On 'Surveillance Society' Information Week, 2 November 2006
- We'll be watching you, MPs warn Big Brother firms Daily Mail, 23 March, 2007
- Britain Worried About Excessive Surveillance Angus Reid Global Monitor, 10 December 2006
- Yes, You Are Being Watched PC World, 27 December 2002
- UK Biobank - DNA samples from up to 500,000 people Spy Blog, 22 August 2006
- Big Brother Goes High-Tech Media Awareness Network, Spring 1996
- Biometrics - Who's watching you? Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Big Brother Incorporated Privacy International, November 1995
- ID Refusniks To Be Prisoners In Their Own Country Infowars, 13 March 2007
- Here is your passport to penury Daily Telegraph, 12 March 2007
- Australian government defends card as criticisms grow Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 2007
- Security breaches undermine Blair's ID card scheme Civil Liberty UK, 29 August 2006
- ID cards doomed, say officials, The Sunday Times 9 July 2006
- ID cards to revolutionise crime... But not in way the Govt wants The Register, 3 July 2002
- Emails from Whitehall officials in charge of ID cards, The Sunday Times 9 July 2006
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- Academic turns up volume on CCTV Bill proposal The Register, 2 Feb 2007
- Car snoop fear dominates PM petitions The Register, 9 Jan 2007
- Battle to wipe son's DNA from database Cheshunt Mercury, 6 September 2006
- Subdermal RFID chip provokes furore The Register, 4 December 2003
- Feds approve human RFID implants The Register, 14 October 2004
- Another very cool way to track your pupils??? chemtrailcentral, 17 September 2006
- A nightmare plot to steal centuries of law and liberty The Times, 15 February 2006
- From red tape to carte blanche The Daily Mail, 23 February 2006
- How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state The Guardian, 5 March 2006
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- Recent & proposed attacks on civil rights in the UK Magna Carta Plus, 2005
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- Man fined for 'rude' Blair shirt BBC News, 30 June 2006
Dead Links (included for completeness)
- Outcry over fingerprinting pupils PA News, 23 July 2002
- Pupils fingerprinted in school libraries Daily Mail, 23 July 2002
- Hi-tech thumbprint scheme slammed This is London, 23 July 2002
- School libraries computerised 'fingerprinting' system criticised Ananova, 23 July 2002
- Innocent children finger-printed by 'Big Brother Blair' Silcon.com, 22 July 2002
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