Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Scanning Children's Finger Prints

It may be optional to have finger print scans now, but that will change in a year or two.

Kids Buy Lunches With Scans of Fingers
School children in Ga. town pay for their lunches with scans of their fingers

ROME, Ga., Sep. 5, 2006
(AP) The never-ending march of technology now means school children here can pay for their cafeteria sloppy joes with their fingers.

Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their accounts.

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"It may be perfectly secure, but my daughter is a minor and I understand that supposedly the kids have the option to not have their prints scanned, but that's not being articulated to my daughter," said Hal Storey, who's daughter is a 10th grader at Rome High.

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