Thursday, January 04, 2007

Where do your fingerprints go?

Unregulated taking of fingerpirnts from childrens as young as three in the UK?

This is happening in Canada to university applicants...

From Excaliber, York University's Newspaper, Toronto, January 3rd 2007:

If you're thinking about taking, or if you've already taken, the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), you know all about the hours of studying it takes to prepare for the exam. But are you prepared for what happens to your thumbprint when you hand it over at the door?

What happens to the fingerprint afterward is the cause of the controversy that has spread across Canadian law school campuses.

After thumbprints are taken at the Law Schools Admission Tests (LSAT) exam, they are sent to the United States to be processed. here, American authorities, including the FBI, have access to the prints.

Claire O'Sullivan is a fourth-year contemporary studies and Spanish student at the University of King's College in Halifax. She took the LSAT this fall and is upset that she had to hand over her thumbprint before writing the exam.

She said she was never told what the print would be used for. She said she wishes more people were protesting the requirement for students to hand over their thumbprints before writing tests like the LSAT.

"I wish it never happened," she said.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fingerprinting, RFID microchip implants, brain chipping, electronic means of exchange transmitted from chips, etc. are all part of a plan to create gargantuan databases available to all governments and its huge and ever-growing branches and agencies.

Research it, read about it, know about it, educate others, and redress your grievances from your local governments.

People, THIS DWARFS WHAT YOU'VE READ IN ORWELL'S 1984 AND BRAVE NEW WORLD!