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Row over finger-printing in schools

bbc online | 22.07.2002 15:19

Kids are being fingerprinted in schools to make libraries more efficient and less vulnerable to abuse!!!

Tens of thousands of children are being finger-printed in school - often without the consent of their parents, a human rights group has complained.
Prints are taken for a library lending system which the makers say makes lending more efficient and less vulnerable to abuse.

But the pressure group Privacy International says the practice is illegal and breaches the human right to privacy.

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  1. Questions — Brian B
  2. Smacks of Orwell — B.S.