Some schools use portable scanners to collect digital images of the students' fingerprints, which need to be updated regularly as the students grow and their fingers change. Biometrics is used for everything from the authentication of new transfer students, to providing the ability to buy lunch in the cafeteria without cash, to checking out books from the library to recording student attendance (Graziano 1).
As this trend continues to grow, there is some concern about privacy issues, which are especially sensitive when minors are involved. For example, Claudia Graziano reports in the article Learning to Live with Biometrics, Chris Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. believes that fingerprint scanning schools "sets a dark precedent, conditioning students at a young age to embrace the idea of Big Brother-style biometric tracking...If ever there was a generation that would not oppose a government system for universal ID, it's this one" (1)
It is certainly understandable that biometrics would conjure up images of futuristic Orwellian disaster scenarios. However according Graziano the main complaint of using fingerprint scanning schools is not about privacy but about a lack of efficiency and convenience. Graziano reports that Bob Engen, president of Educational Biometric Technology, suggests that "speed, not security or privacy, seems to be students' biggest concern with the system. The fingerprint-recognition systems tend to run slowly - slower than manually punching in a number, for instance - if a school is using a computer that is more than a few years old. Additionally, large student populations can slow the system since it has to run through every stored image before identifying the best match" (1).
Clearly there are still adjustments to be made for biometrics technology is used pervasively in businesses,...
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