Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Minnesota on the possible introduction of fingerprint scanners for lunch lines at Oltman Junior High in St. Paul Park and East Ridge High School.:
"This is a solution in search of a problem. It just baffles me. Of all the problems schools face, is this really an issue?"
Officials think it will speed up lunch lines, solve the problem of children forgetting their ID numbers and prevent identity theft (?!)
But the comments from the biometric vendor in this article are quite bizarre and would be funny if they weren't so seriously off the mark :
"There always seems to be this knee-jerk reaction that somehow, some way, a person is giving up their identity." - putting a child's biometric details on a relatively unsecure system, biometric details that have to be secure for the lifetime of the child, decades in fact, for insignificant tasks such as paying for food I would argue IS most definitely "giving up their identity" to significant risk.
When you bear in mind the obvious fact that computers are advancing at a great rate along with transferable softwear from biometric database to biometric database (and with that hackers abilities) that using childrens biometric for mundane administrative tasks is wholly inappropriate.
This biometric vendor goes on to say:
"It's absolutely the opposite. It actually protects a person's identity." - right...
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