Children were roped into giving their fingerprint without the consent of their parent and the schools of UK used biometric technology and get the finger print of the 800,000 children between the 2013 and 2012.
The Civil liberties group (Big Brother Watch) has filed Freedom of information Request to over 3,000 schools, It is found the over the 40 percent of school are using the biometrical technology on children and only 1255 schools responded.
According to the Big Brother Watch report, “As we are now one term into the 2013-14 academic year, and expect the number of schools using the technology to have increased over the summer, and the secondary school population now above 3.2 million, if the number of secondary schools using biometric technology increased from 25% to 30%, more than one million children would be fingerprinted,”
The report noted that The Department for Education keeps no record of the number of schools using biometric technologies.
According to the report, “We continue to be concerned that the use of biometric technologies threatens the development of a sense of privacy as young people develop, while also creating greater opportunities to track an individual pupil’s activity across multiple areas, from the library books they take out to the food they eat,”
The report recommends that safeguards are put in place to ensure that the data gathered is deleted once the children finish school.
Emma Carr (Deputy Director of Big Brother Watch) told to RT’s Laure Smith, “I think it’s really necessary for schools to be transparent, especially when it’s relating to very sensitive personal information,”
Without Parent Permission, UK Schools Get Fingerprinted Over 800,000 Children
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