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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Article on the news last night about Schools using Biometrics to identify pupils using libraries, IT etc. Personally i find this disturbing as using this information as another part of bringing our lives under scrutiny by the government. Under no circumstances would i let my children be screened for this as i see it as a breach of their civil liberties. |
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in total agreement with you on this one the big brother state is getting closer and closer id cards they are talking about recognition software for cameras too wont be long before we get barcodes tattooed on wrists n get logged everywhere we go |
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I would be interested to find out exactly how many regulations of the data protection act it will break especially the parts about data ownership and the data of minors. In fact I am not in work this week but I will go in and check! |
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to be honest i would say yes to this one, on the condition that the study was anonymous,
Kids tend to turn to the internet for the wealth of information on it and when i was studying it was all to easy to get distracted. If the study was to try and make libraries or similiar sources of information more inviting/welcoming to kids then, again, if there was no tie to a name of a kid/person then i would happily go along with it |
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Thing is that making this compulsory would be a breach of the ECHR and Unicef children's charter both of which the Scottish Government are signatories, it give me the feeling that this is being slid in sideways hopefully without anyone noticing that is until last night apparently Liberty UK and SMP's are asking for an enquiry into how this was passed or even put before the Parliament or Education Authority's done it off their own backs. |
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if i have picked up this thread correctly are we talking about schools using information to study the behaviour of their school pupils via the schools library or IT??? |
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I don't really see the huge problem with the introduction of biometric scanning for children.
I imagine that the data (fingerprint in this case) would just be added to the school's database which already exists.
There's also the practical side to it; forget or lose your card and you're stuffed for accessing the library/computer. Wheras you can just mash your greasy little digit onto the reader and you're away. There's also the good point someone posted above me.
It's a technology which I wish would be rolled out to make things like credit/debit cards defunct. I'm sure we have all at some point experienced the fear and inconvenience when you lose a bank card or driver's licence. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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In several instances hard drives, discs with this information have been lost to gone missing, The use of Biometric information could be offered on a voluntary basis but as stated by some of the posters this is the start of something that worries parents, civil liberties organizations and even SMP's and as i said breaches several international agreements on childrens rights. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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much to do about nothing. let them watch us, record our details and do whatever. they may be watching us as we speak but hey ho i have better things to concern myself with than what big brother is watching me do. lets just dna everyone at birth, microchip us and this will enable them to sat nav us 24/7 and anyone commiting a crime is seized immediately  |
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I have used a biometric system (fingerprint scanner) for accessing restricted key bunches in my place of work for the last 2years now.. To date my fingers haven't fallen off, I've never lost/forgotten to bring my finger with me and therefore couldn't access the keys, I don't have to worry about someone accessing the cabinet pretending to be me (unless they have hacked my finger off, in which case I'd have bigger worries than some keys) and no-one has stolen my visa/debit/bank/passport details due to the fact that a fingerprint scan for accessing a computerised system is only just that.. A small piece of information unique to u that no-one else can duplicate and should make accessing whatever it is applied to safer and more secure.
If they used this system in libraries/computer labs it could automatically restrict the children from accessing inappropriate material by refusing access to certain books/info/dvds/websites etc based on their age or parental settings...
To be honest, the only prob I've had is that the scanner can be tempermental at times.. Usually when u're late for work and in a hurry!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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need to look at some of the stuff by alex jones on you tube its all very desturbing stuff biometrics in schools is one but it to get worse all over the world not just in the uk |
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The thing that I'd hate to happen in the future is that we each receive plastic cards with something like a chip in them to allow us to access to things like our own money stored in banks etc...
I mean can u imagine carrying something like that around with you and everytime u wanted to access cash u'll have to put it into and electronic machine which will ask u for a code that has absolutely no tie to yourself, all u need is the correct 4 digit code, the machine is dumb and doesn't know if the person entering the code is the genuine account holder but if the code is correct then it'll spit out ur money! Pretty soon they'll install these machine in supermarkets where anyone can look over your shoulder as u input ur code, or the really unscrupulous could invent a way to strip the code from your chip by adding card readers to the machines...
The sooner biometrics appears the better imo.. Chip and pin was actually a step back security wise as when u had to sign ur receipt after using a debit/credit card at least u had a fighting change of someone not being able to forge ur signature..
I firmly do not believe in a big brother society but the debate is more about whether or not we trust the ppl in charge to use these advances in technology to make our lives easier/quicker/more secure or if they intend to advance a totalitarian state??? |
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