tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35796774.post6524528794290745471..comments2023-08-02T06:15:54.511+00:00Comments on Biometrics in schools: Biometric industry see BECTA's guidance as a "green light"Pippa Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248669312548711313noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35796774.post-64854054152764417192007-12-16T10:39:00.000+00:002007-12-16T10:39:00.000+00:00I take on board your points you have made in your ...I take on board your points you have made in your first sentance and were aware of them - thanks.<BR/><BR/>There is no doubt that fingerprint technology, as with any "tool" can be used in the right and appropriate circumstances.<BR/><BR/>The costs/benefits of using this technology in schools has not yet been justified. Schools collectively are spending millions of pounds on this technology where money could arguably be much better spent within education.<BR/><BR/>IF finger-scanning children in the western world is justified then why are schools not gaining consent from parents for this?<BR/><BR/>As parents we have to consent for photographs to be taken of our children, school trips, children sampling different food, visits to school nurses, etc - why not fingerprinting... because enough parents would not consent for this technology to be viably used in schools.<BR/><BR/>Adults are not using this technology on a scale that children so in schools because the market does not yet exist because a proportion of us would choose NOT to use is - to the extent it would not be viable.<BR/><BR/>Yes - use it as identifiers when other means are not possible, where illiteracy exists or for security - but not without parent’s knowledge in western schools - to shave a few minutes off lunch breaks...Pippa Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12248669312548711313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35796774.post-71257064510892099222007-12-15T12:19:00.000+00:002007-12-15T12:19:00.000+00:00Our fingerprint is spread eveywhere. When we open ...Our fingerprint is spread eveywhere. When we open a door or touch a glass, etc.<BR/>The argument that our children may suffer unjustified investigation by authority is paranoid, an law officer is inteligent enough to make a child touch somehting that could be latter scanned by an AFIS or collect the fingerprint left in a computer keyboard. See the famous arcticle by the japanese scientist Tsutomu Matsumoto from Yokohama National University and comments by Bruce Scheineir an American Security Expert http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm#bruce.<BR/><BR/>The use of fingerprint should be analysed as any security method from the point of view of cost/benefits for every stackholder. In poor countries where the children are fed by the government and there is fraud everywhere the benefits are enormous.<BR/>Moreover the fingerprint image may show whether the child is being forced to work in unhealthy environment by parents and relatives. A very damaged fingerprint may show that a child is manipulating pesticide or working on the agricaulture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35796774.post-66679673296981557602007-12-12T00:48:00.000+00:002007-12-12T00:48:00.000+00:00keep up the good work Pippa!This is yet more Orwel...keep up the good work Pippa!<BR/>This is yet more Orwellian double speak, the sincere answer = Bo**ocks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com