- "People are responding to this preposterous misuse of identity with sites like leavethemkidsalone. These people know how to communicate." Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Identity Architect, 28 Mar 2007
- "Those of us in the United States and other countries where this is coming, or where it is in the works, should be watching the UK very closely to see how this plays out for them. And see how this could ultimately affect you and yours... Personally, I fear for my grandchildren." LilBambi, 2 May 2007
- "Have these people lost their minds? Tracking kids as they get on and off school buses is a ridiculous idea." Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of BT Counterpane, the world's leading protector of networked information, 11 January 2005
- "Please consider this for a moment; “how do you want your country to be?”, or more to the point “how do you want the country to be for your children when they grow up?” " American States Online, 22 March 2007
- "These schemes are effectively grooming children to live in a future Big Brother society - Children caught up in this when they are too young to know better will grow up under the impression that living in a police state is the natural state of affairs. One York headteacher quoted by the York Press betrays this motive in a shockingly bald statement:"
“These children, frankly, are growing up in a world where identity and being certain about your own identity is increasingly important. All the measures to do with ID cards will possibly invade their privacy even further, but the world has no answer to terrorism without using these things and I would see us as getting them ready for the world in which they will have to live.“ SELECT Privacy, 10 January, 2007
- "Your child could be next." Michael Lambe, Kyoto, JP
- "The Dept of Education isn't protesting. Nor, I suspect, are the companies which are making money from selling the technology to schools." nnseek, 07 Mar 2007
- "The 'awkward' squad is “joining up” faster than government. Government needs them as critical friends. " ideal-government, by William Heath, one of the founders of the government IT procurement information service Kable Ltd, which does public sector ICT publishing, events & market research, and drives the IdealGovernment blog., 22 Dec 2006
- "As NO2ID theorize this is about the establishment of the 'database state'." electricinca, 19 December 2006
- "The more I read, the more this is disturbing me... You owe it to your children to get educated." the-last-world, 10 January 2007
- "My two children would have had their biometric information taken off them without my consent had I not have spotted the fingerprint scanner in the library" Pippa King, 11 October 2006
- "Taking your children's fingerprints is only the beginning, they are already quite legally swapping, sharing, matching, and acting on data provided for other reasons at other times for other purposes." Postman Patel, 04 October 2006
- "Have thousands of school kids been breaking the law? No, they only want to use the library... Your child [will] have their biometric ID recorded and stored. This includes fingerprints and mugshots and personal information... 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." no2id blogspot, 24 October 2006
- "It's disgusting. Totally disgusting that this happens. It's population control by stealth." novafix, 09 October 2006
- "The idea that they are fingerprinting kids too young to understand the ramifications, is clever and terrifying." fragglechick, 10 October 2006
- "If mark doesn't use the fingerprint system, he now can't have school dinners, where was the choice in that? Where's the freedom there?" oldson , 10 October 2006
- "Let's get this straight, this expensive ID process has been implimented for school children accross the country, to be stored for the duration of their education, this same information is a vital core element of the much touted national ID card... And you are going to destroy the data. This means one of two things:
- You are lying to us, and gathering the data via the back door, thus enabling a roll-out of ID cards for school leavers. In which case you are doing so without public consultation, misdirection and going against your voter wishes. This means that you are fraudulent and unfit to lead us.
or;
- You really ARE going to destroy the data, which would waste millions of tax-payer funds, this is an almost criminal mis-management of money. Which would make you unfit to lead us."
dan_g, 10 October 2006
- "Spread the word, if you have kids, you owe it to them, if you don't have kids, do it for mine, do it for your friends, let people know what things are being done without consent or approval." John Dodd, 09 October 2006
- "The UK government has argued that children of 5 years of age and above should be fingerprinted " driftwork, 28 March 2007
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