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Privacy International recently received a complaint from the mother
of an eleven year-old child attending a London primary school.
She had discovered that all children attending the school had
been electronically finger printed for a new library system, and
was deeply concerned by the practice. The school had not asked
the parents for their consent, not were the children given an
explanation of their legal rights.
Subsequent research by PI revealed that the finger
printing system has been sold to a thousand schools, resulting
in the mass finger printing of as many as 200,000 children. The
practice, until now, had not received any press attention. PI
has commenced a campaign to ban the use of finger printing in
schools.
This page contains background documents, relevant
web sites, correspondence and links to press coverage.
News Articles
Little
Brother's fingerprints all over the library, The Times,
23rd July 2002
Outcry
over fingerprinting pupils, PA News, 23rd July
2002
Pupils
fingerprinted in school libraries, Daily Mail,
23rd July 2002
Fingerprinting
school kids 'is wrong', BBC, 23rd July 2002
Fingerprint
fuss over school libraries, This is London, 23rd
July 2002
Schools
Use Fingerprint IDs, Sky News, 23rd July 2002
School
libraries computerised 'fingerprinting' system criticised,
Ananova, 23rd July 2002
Hi-tech
thumbprint scheme slammed, This is London, 23rd
July 2002
Row
over finger-printing in schools, BBC, 22nd July
2002
UK
schoolkids fingerprinted, prompting privacy concerns,
The Inquirer, 22nd July 2002
Innocent
children finger-printed by 'Big Brother Blair', Silcon.com,
22nd July 2002
Fingerprinting
of UK school kids causes outcry, Register.com,
22nd July 2002
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