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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
 
 
 Biometrics in schools in the USA   (what's happening in your state?)

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Schools that fingerprint children for registration or the lunch line are storing their fingerprint templates in an insecure environment (compared to, say, a bank) where they could easily be copied or stolen without the school's consent, or in some cases even knowledge.  
 
 If schools fail to take adequate steps to protect the biometric identities of children in their care they face the real possibility of future litigation and claims for substantial damages if biometric data is compromised, during a child's entire lifetime as a result of negligence or a failure in their legal duty of care.  
 
"People have to be stark, raving mad to use conventional biometrics to improve the efficiency of a children's lunch line." Kim Cameron, architect of identity and access in Microsoft's connected systems division, 5 April 2007
"There's no absolute, secure system in this country yet... Biometric information could be stolen and that it could be a long time before schools and banks know that it's gone." Richard Faulkner, School Committee Member, Taunton MA, 19 April 2007
 
  

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"We are a testing ground for this new technology. It's like an ID card for kids..." Jim Kelly, Palm Beach County schools' police chief, speaking to the Sun-Sentinel, 07 July 2004
"The right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment." Justice Louis D. Brandies, (Olmstead v. U.S.) 1928
 

GENERAL:

 
 
 Biometric scanning of school children in the U.S. is carried out for registration, library, canteen and also on some school bus routes. Some states have made specific laws regarding the use of biometric systems; others enforce the need for parental consent and some ban it altogether.

In the U.S. it seems that school districts are the sales targets of the biometric industry.

The main concerns in the U.S. are parents not being informed, privacy, and security and sharing of data.  
 

 
 
 
 

LEGAL
 
 

AMERICAN PRIVACY ORGANISATIONS

 
 
 The top 3 are the best to get in touch with, but ACLU and EFF have been actively involved with parents complaining about biometircs in schools and changing the law.  
 
 
 

AMERICAN LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION

 
 
 

AMERICAN NATIONAL PTA

www.pta.org/ ...to support and speak on behalf of all children...

Kids Buy Lunch With Finger Scans - a learning resource for children from education-world.

 
 

The Real ID Act of 2005 - ID Cards by the back door?

 
 
 Real Nightmare - Website set up by the ACLU which has been lobbying state officials to oppose the plan.  
 
 National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards - Wired.com, 15 May 2007  
 
 
 
 

LEADING U.S. SCHOOL BIOMETRIC VENDORS / MANUFACTURERS

 
 

Learning to Live With Biometrics
"Food Service Solutions, the point-of-sale vendor said its finger-scanning units are in 45 school districts nationwide, fingerprinting approximately 250,000 students daily."

Leading school services software provider to fingerprint U.S. children
Schoolhouse Software, a leading provider of K-12 lunch line management systems, selects M2SYS fingerprint software to provide integrated biometric identification system for school lunch line POS.

Retail Dynamics, Inc - selling, installing and supporting identiMetrics biometric solution, identiFi, into its customer base of schools and retail POS installations in New York, Georgia and South Carolina.
http://www.retaildynamics.com (cut & paste this link into your browser)
 
 
 

 
 

SCHOOLS THAT DON'T FINGERPRINT CHILDREN

  • Taunton School Massachusetts abandoned the technology after parents protested strongly and school officials carefully investigated the technical and legal implications of using biometrics in schools.

  • Boulder Valley Public Schools in Boulder, Colorado is one district that decided against the technology.

  • Irvine, California - University High School dropped plan to scan fingerprints.

 
 

SCHOOLS THAT DON'T YET FINGERPRINT CHILDREN...

 
 

SOME OF THE SCHOOLS / SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT DO FINGERPRINT CHILDREN

 
 

HAND SCANNERS

 
 
 

BIOMETRICS USED/BANNED: ALL SCHOOLS, DISTRICTS, etc - listed by state

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"Education, Education, Education" Tony Blair (1996)    "Consent, Consent, Consent" Concerned parents (2007)  
 
 We are campaigning for the widespread use of biometrics in schools to be debated , strictly regulated and closely
monitored, with statutory requirements for explicit informed parental consent where children's biometrics are taken  
 
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