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Posted on 10/05/2012 6:34:40 PM PDT by RobertClark
Instead of paying for their lunches with crumpled dollar bills and loose change, students in Carroll County schools are having their palms scanned in a new check-out system — raising concerns from some parents that their children's privacy is being violated.
The county is one of the first localities in Maryland to use the PalmSecure system, in which children from kindergarten to 12th grade place their hands above an infrared scanner. It identifies unique palm and vein patterns, and converts the image into an encrypted numeric algorithm that records a sale.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
That could eliminate the need for photo ID.
Let’s just plant a number inside their palm and use that.
Much more secure... (sarc/off)
Oh, hell, no!
Chip ‘em, Dano.
If this isn’t a step too far for the American people, we are done.
These must be one percenter kids.
Real Americans get their lunch for free from the fedgov.....
Privacy? How? Scan a palm?
Holy smokes, this is pretty advanced technology for lunch!
But, you can’t require a photo id to vote?
Give to me a freaking break, as we used to say.
Why not use a system like a debit card? at least the System wouldn’t have the fingerprints of the very young for future reference. Maybe these particular instruments aren’t keeping the fingerprints, but someday the prints will be stored.
“Conditioning the young, perhaps? “
Conditioning the young for the Mark of the Beast.
scanner could cause cancer later in life.. I would be having a fit
Amen!
It is a privacy issue. More and more databases with identifying information are being created on an almost daily basis. What privacy safeguards are in place to prevent this information from being accessed?
As a DOD contractor, we utilize smartcards containing biometric data (retinal scans, fingerprint scans, and palm scans). Our DMV is requiring prints for DL's now. Before long, this type of identifying info will be used to verify identity in commerce - it is far from a stretch of the imagination. Your computer probably has a fingerprint reader on it - mine does!
This is probably a covert palmistry project, profiling students according to an estimate of their future. Any other conspiracy theory?
1) I live in this county, and this is the first I've heard of the palm-scanning -- it wasn't something in the local media or brought before the populace outside of the schools involved, that I know of.
2) The principal quoted in this article, Darryl Robbins, was the VP at my kids' elementary school up until last year and I LOVED him.... though yes, he was a "public school guy" thru & thru
3) I've never understood why an on-line pre-pay system wasn't instituted.... it would no doubt be cheaper, easier, and most certainly less intrusive than a palm-scan.
Figures they would kick off the pilot project in Pinellas County Florida, home of Scientology and judicial death warrants for folks who have never been charged with a crime.
I’m thinking any sort of card reader will have that information. I bet those kids have a library card with all that info on it. So the school has their name, address and stuff. So just put in how much money they have on account and subtract it. They don’t need personal history. I’m thinking that there’s too much hype about ID stuff. You have it in just about everything. So you stop one thing, but there’s so much more about you on all sorts of cards. I think the parents are over reacting.
.. for your consideration.
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