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Would you trust Carillion with your fingerprints?

30/11/09 - 0 comments

The latest bright idea from the Carillion micro-brain is to start collecting the bio-metric information of school children from around the region.

The idea is to get children to collect their lunches with their fingerprints having already paid and ordered online. Carillion say it will enable pupils to pay for their meals without having to bring cash into the school.

Already there is an alternative in place involving non-intrusive swipe cards, which also enable pupils to pay for their meals without having to bring cash into the school, so why the fingerprinting?

Your fingerprint are formed in the womb and aren't thought to change throughout your entire life. Banks and security systems are starting to use biometrics, so theoretically you're giving Carillion access to every system your child will use in the future that relies on biometrics.

That's assuming they don't lose the data or sell the drive it's on without erasing it correctly.

Carillion are keen to point out the system "would also benefit people with special dietary requirements, as at the ordering stage it would warn them if a meal contained something they were allergic to" although this would be possible with any system that didn't require fingerprinting.

So would you give a company that couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery your fingerprints?

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