Fingerprint Technology Gaining Ground in School Food Service

[AGENDA21]

(PRWEB) January 19, 2005 -- Fingerprint technology is now being harnessed at K-12 schools around the nation for school lunches. Students simply place a forefinger on a small reader by the register. Public schools such as those in the Penn Cambria and Wilson School Districts in Pennsylvania have adopted this technology to speed operation; simplify payment; limit lunch fraud and bullying; improve National School Lunch Program (NSLP) participation; and to improve reimbursement for programs such as Title I, E-rate, and No Child Left Behind, which use NSLP food service data to gauge poverty.

“Unlike cash, tickets and swipe cards which can be lost or stolen, your fingers are always with you -- and no one can use them to gain fraudulent access to your account,” says Brenda Bucynski, secretary to Penn Cambria School District’s Foodservice Director.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb199250.htm

[AverageJoe]

1. We live in a bad science fiction movie

This is a step toward total control. Everybody gets fingerprinted or they can't function in society. Every fingerprint easily identified via a central database. Where ever you go, they can find you.

Or maybe I'm just a tinfoil hat kinda guy? :tinfoilhat:

[Gormy Cuss]

2. I think the risk here is indoctrination.

If you become comfortable with using a fingerprint scan for ID at age 5, you'll be much more likely to think of biometric identifiers as benign.

[AverageJoe]

8. Yes, you're right

Indoctrination and the resulting mind control. Yep.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Why don't they just bar code the foreheads of the little tykes

They could scan them like groceries.

[AGENDA21]

4. Dont give them any ideas...lol

[Love Bug]

5. I'm surprised the fundys aren't screaming "mark of the beast!"

They're usually the first to yell about big-brotherish tech.

[Nay]

6. Isn't it strange? They used to howl and rage at such stuff, but now that

their dear godly repub prez is in power, none of it bothers them.

[chat_noir]

7. Fundys see RFID tags as mark of the beast

Good, we'll take any allies that we can get on this intrusive technology.

[SmokingJacket]

9. The world will end if kids steal government pizza.

AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

[rumpel]

10. the perfect opportunity for a total awareness database in 10 years

[Book Lover]

11. Wasn't it Mr Data who said

something like, "I assume your handprint will open that door whether you are conscious or not."?

[AGENDA21]

12. This is interesting article on RFID...

Computer chips get under skin of U.S. enthusiasts

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forgetting computer passwords is an everyday source of frustration, but a solution may literally be at hand -- in the form of computer chip implants.

With a wave of his hand, Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada, opens his front door. With another, he logs onto his computer.

Tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) computer chips inserted into Graafstra's hands make it all possible.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-01-05T224334Z_01_YUE581651_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-TECHNOLOGY-IMPLANTS.XML