Should Schools Fingerprint Your Kids?
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Some schools believe it is a way to make lunch lines more efficient. Parents see "Big Brother" lurking.
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The European Commission will propose tomorrow that all foreign travelers into and out of Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted. If approved by the European Parliament, the measure would mean that precisely identifying information on tens of millions of citizens will be added in...
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A program called HIPSchools lets parents track assignments and communicate with teachers online. For a Brooklyn middle school with a failing grade from the state, the system has meant a dramatic turnaround. By Cyrus Farivar.
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'We don't have to ask parents' The headmaster of Porth County Comprehensive School in South Wales has defended fingerprinting all 1,400 of his pupils days after their parents were told about the scheme last Wednesday.â¦
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Emerging technology uses a printer's fingerprint to trace and verify documents.
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A "pupil passport" scheme in Sweden is proving popular with parents, as BBC education correspondent Mike Baker reports.
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MySpace this week is testing a system that uses fingerprinting tech from Audible Magic to spot and prevent uploading of unauthorized video under copyright protection.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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DNA fingerprints of more than 100 children aged under 10 stored despite their being younger than the age of criminal responsibility.
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Primary schools and parents are to be given advice on how to help young children stay safe online.
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By John McBride, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 24--For some parents, the risks of the Web may appear to outweigh the benefits. Does e-mail and help with homework trump pornography and predators?   One way to gain some peace of mind is a product called K9 Web Protection.
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CARTERET, N.J. -- A few weeks back, Linda Singh picked up the registration packet from her local school district. There, at the bottom of the first page, was the question regarding birthplace, followed by: "If not USA, date entered USA."
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Americans' fingerprints should be added to their passports, outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday, hoping to include the United States in a growing global security standard but risking a privacy fight at home.
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ROME  - Rome's school system is going digital.  Rome City Schools are switching to a finger-scanning system that lets students pay for meals with a touch.  In the past, students had personal identification numbers that accessed spending accounts.
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"We should address parents' concerns" The managing director of one of the firms supplying fingerprint scanners to British schools has vowed to come clean to parents about the arguments against the use of such biometric technology on children.â¦
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9. (Guardian News Service):The genetic profiles held by police for criminal investigations are not sophisticated enough to prevent false identifications, according to the father of DNA fingerprinting.
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Prints might just be needed for 'special' groups a key component of the UK ID card scheme, the central database of fingerprints, may be abandoned, according to a leaked Home Office document obtained by the Observer. The document doesn't suggest entirely scrapping fingerprints, but instead suggests that their value should be assessed for each group of the population enrolled.â¦