The study finds that three-quarters of secondary schools are using fingerprints or other biometrics.
Activist Post By Chris Burt
Forcing children to use biometrics to prove their eligibility for the ‘Free School Meals’ program violates a legal restriction on obligatory biometric systems, according to a new report on the use of the technology in UK schools.
‘The State of Biometrics 2022: A Review of Policy and Practice in UK Education’ is written by Pippa King and Jen Persson for advocacy group defenddigitalme, with a forward written by UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Fraser Sampson.
The organization says childrens’ rights advocates and lawmakers are concerned about the intrusiveness of biometric data in educational settings.
Sampson begins by asking who benefits from the school biometric deployments, who is performing oversight, whether the trustworthiness of partners like technology providers has been considered, what the motivation for deployment is and why it is being hurried.
