Schools need consent to fingerprint kids?
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ICO sticks its neck-out - and gets it in a twist The Information Commissioner has declared that schools should ask for the consent of children and parents before they take pupil's fingerprints, despite there being no legal obligation for them to do so.â¦
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Hoping to prevent the loss of children, a few schools have begun monitoring student movements using technology similar to that used to track livestock and retail shipments.
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As opposed to cost, complexity, unfeasibility... Plans to use fingerprint scanners to control access to the House of Commons have been abandoned "over fears that terrorists could cut off an MP's finger to get inside," claims the Mail on Sunday, citing a recent episode of Spooks and "Commons security experts."â¦
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Police agree to destroy DNA swabs and fingerprints taken from an 11-year-old Londonderry girl last month.
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Innocent until uploaded to the DNA database Next week, the Nuffield council on Bioethics is set to publish its thoughts on the ethics of using biometrics as forensic tools. In the lead up to the publication of the report, to be entitled The Forensic Use of Bioinformation: Ethical Issues, the debate about the use of DNA, particularly, has intensified.â¦
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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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The U.K. government is proposing legislation that would create a system of ID cards with embedded biometric identifiers that everyone living in the U.K. would be required to have by 2011 or 2012.
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Schools will be reassured they  have the right to set their own uniform policies - after a court case involving the wearing of veils.
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At the Samuel H. Daroff Elementary school in West Philadelphia, students must pass a security officer who uses a metal detector wand to search for possible weapons. A network of cameras pans the grounds and beyond for any sign of trouble.
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DfES qualifies its stance Parents cannot prevent schools from taking their children's fingerprints, according to the Department for Education and Skills and the Information Commissioner.â¦
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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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The legal case of a girl with special educational needs could prompt a rethink of the use of restraint in schools.
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The Conservatives have promised to give parents greater choice of schools. Their "pupil passport" idea is similar to a scheme in Sweden, as BBC education correspondent Mike Baker reports.
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Children aged 16 and 17 will be able to apply for a passport without the consent of their parents, it is announced.
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You're on an identity parade. Forever. The National Identity Register will allow police to add the entire adult population of the UK to their suspect list, giving them the opportunity to check fingerprints left at scenes of crime against those collected from ID card and passport applicants, says Tony Blair. Nor are fingerprints in other EU countries necessarily safe - the introduction of biometric technology, he adds, will "improve the flow of information between countries on the identity of offenders.â¦
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Up to 800,000 of the school's students, faculty and alumni may be vulnerable to identity theft.  What went wrong, and what can be done about it?
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Secure USB tokens used to verify a child's age before allowing him to chat.