Fingerprinting kids

My unhealthy obsession with ID cards has led me to the campaign against fingerprinting children – Leave Them Kids Alone.


At first, I thought it was a typical, over-anxious parent campaign (MMR, mobile phone masts, etc.). It’s clearly more than that.

Children in our schools are being fingerprinted to access school services, with little evidence that parental consent is being sought.

Derbyshire Council are delighted with the technology. But I have serious reservations about a system that captures biological identifiers like this, sometimes from children at primary school, without informing parents, and with very little information about where, and how the data is stored (and by whom).

I gave the local rag a push in this direction - we'll see tomorrow if they've bothered to look into it. Meanwhile, one of our local MEPs has kicked up a fuss (UKIP, unfortunately). My email to the Council remains unanswered.

Whatever your views, the LTKA site is worth a read - it's well-written, humourous and a good example of what an online campaign should look like.  Let's hope it has some effect.
30.8.06 20:36
 


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