Article excerpt from The Telegraph
Children, 4, ‘to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library’
Children as young as four could be fingerprinted to take out books from a school library.
Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program.
Under the scheme, pupils swipe a bar code inside the book they want borrow then press their thumb on to a scanner to authorise the loan. Books are returned in the same way.
Wow. Talk about fingerprint IDing. This is indeed precursory to the mark of the beast. Just for borrowing books? We just use a plastic library card with a barcode on it.
“It conditions children to hand over sensitive personal information.”
Big Brother is at worst, a pain-in-the-backside stickybeak.
All pupils’ details are erased when they leave school.
I call BS on this one. The details may be transferred to British law enforcement agencies or MI5/6.
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June 2, 2010 at 4:14 pm