"That means the child’s account has been charged and his or her eating habits tracked

[janer]

This sentence is wedged into an article that appeared in the Sunday Press of Atlantic City - an electronic tracking system based upon fingerprint scanning being used in an elementary school.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/185/story/449395.html

[Talk2Bill]

it doesn't track their eating habits. It tracks if they got a meal not how much of it they eat.

and many school's use computers and the kid's name or ID number to do the same thing.

[PyramidBuilder]

I'm really against training kids to get used to the surveillance state, that you will be scanned and followed everywhere you go. Britain has already fallen apart and Obama has no intention of ending the warrantless wiretapping and imprisonment of the last administration. Give kids a lunch card and let them get used to being individuals, not wardens of the state.

[RWReaganfan]

I'm really against training kids to get used to the surveillance state, that you will be scanned and followed everywhere you go. Britain has already fallen apart and Obama has no intention of ending the warrantless wiretapping and imprisonment of the last administration. Give kids a lunch card and let them get used to being individuals, not wardens of the state.

Now we are putting kids in charge of our state prisons?

[PyramidBuilder]

Hmm. . . not "wardens." I meant "wards." Changes the meaning quite a bit :).

[RWReaganfan]

Hmm. . . not "wardens." I meant "wards." Changes the meaning quite a bit :).

Oh, I know! I just love typos that really change the meaning of a sentence.

I had a friend send out an e-mail where she typed "even" instead of "eleven". That changed the entire picture!

[PyramidBuilder]

Oh, I know! I just love typos that really change the meaning of a sentence.

I had a friend send out an e-mail where she typed "even" instead of "eleven". That changed the entire picture!

I hate it when I send an e-mail to a professor or somebody I'm dating and realize I did a word switcheroo that makes me look like a grunting caveman. I always hope they'll just read over it they way I did.

[Apatriot]

This sentence is wedged into an article that appeared in the Sunday Press of Atlantic City - an electronic tracking system based upon fingerprint scanning being used in an elementary school.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/185/story/449395.html


Less chance of fraud that way. Most elementary schools don't want to deal with cash in the lunch line. At my son's school, we send in a check each month to pay for their milk (to drink with their sack lunch). They have an ID based system--i.e. they have to tell the lunch lady their lunch number, before they get their meal or milk. In a larger school, I can see how the fingerprint system would be better--no other student could overhear your number and then use it.

[imme]

Just last week my children came home from school with a paper saying they were going to participate in some program that gave them an i.d. card with their info on it along with their fingerprint. Alot of people tell me I am paranoid about some of the beliefs I hve about the tgovernment. I made it absolutely clear to the teachers I did not want my children participating in this, and they didn't. As far as I know. My children told me they didn't. I see no reason why the government would want my children to have an i.d. card with their info and fingerprint on it unlesss it was to catalog them. Start an f.b.i. file on them early in life. This is not a dem vs repub issue. This is about privacy and big brother and government overstepping it's bounds and abusing their authority.

[BostonPatriot]

This is not a dem vs repub issue. This is about privacy and big brother and government overstepping it's bounds and abusing their authority.

Exactly the point I made in another thread. :)

[KyanWan]

Biometrics. I'm a security person (*IT/Computer Scientist, with specialty in network security! dood!) and I'm against it.

Magstrip is my preference - it's old, tried, true - and best of all it works fine. Passwords work great too - we just need to learn stronger ones. Don't even need to be complex - but well made.

Biometrics - just think of the science-fiction world. Think Tom Clancy books and security issues.

Think, if you get a retina scan - what does a crook need to do ... to use your retina?

Rip your eyes out.

How about use your fingerprint?

Chop your hands off - figure out which finger is the right one later.

I'd rather have my magnetic swipe card stolen, than my body parts, thank you very much. Identity theft would become a real gory business in a world dominated by biometrics.