Posted on 01/09/2025 5:32:22 PM PST by george76
Students cite privacy concerns, ‘risk of collecting biometric information’
New biometric palm recognition scanners in a Dartmouth College dining hall have prompted privacy concerns among some students.
The “biometric recognition technology” recently was installed in all but one entrance gate to the Ivy League school’s Class of 1953 Commons dining hall ahead of the winter term, The Dartmouth reports.
Instead of scanning or swiping an ID, students can use the new technology to scan the unique palm of their hand to record their entry into the dining hall and purchase a meal.
One remaining gate allows students “to swipe in with their physical ID cards” instead, according to the report.
While some students described the technology as “cool” and easy to use, others expressed concerns about the “risk” of their personal biometric data being collected and misused or stolen.
According to the student newspaper:
On Jan. 7, messages reading “Resist hand scan” and “Resist the hand” appeared on the public blackboard in ’53 Commons.
Bradyn Quintard ’25 said he believes the change to palm biometric technology was “completely unnecessary.” …
“Some people I talked to thought [hand scanning] was mandatory,” Quintard said.
Other students expressed concerns about the collection of biometric data needed to use the scanners. Dara Casey ’25 said she does not like sharing personal forensic information. Quintard added that there is “no reason to introduce the risk of collecting biometric information” because the physical ID system worked “fine.”
“I understand that they’re using … a proprietary algorithm with mathematical numbers, whatever that means,” Quintard said. “We have no reason to trust it as secure. We have no reason to trust their management of it.”
However, Dartmouth Dining director Jon Plodzik told the student newspaper the system is secure.
“The system has been vetted by the College’s IT group and is used by lots of colleges, businesses, government offices and sensitive restricted labs,” Plodzik said.
These include Boston University, Florida State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt, according to the report.
Plodzik told The Dartmouth the system software does not store any “fingerprints or impressions.”
Computer science professor Tim Tregubov also told the student newspaper that he believes the technology is “fairly safe” due to encryption and other security measures.
So far, about 2,000 students have signed up to use the palm scanner, according to the dining director. The college decided to install the scanner to decrease waiting lines for the dining hall, Plodzik said.
Plodzik said he does not “see a downside” to the system, and students who decide not to participate “are destined to stand in a line waiting for entry.”
“Dara Casey ’25 said she does not like sharing personal forensic information.”
If she’s 25 and still in college, she needs to START STUDYING.
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They don’t like palm scanning, but they think nothing of Android and iphone face scanning hundreds of times each days.
Mark of the beast. If you use it you’ll go to hell probably.
means class of 2025
WAY too late, lefties.
You have long given up your freedoms by attending Dartmouth.
Optional.
Click-bait.
It won't suddenly one day become compulsory. There will be a transitional period when it will be pitched as more convenient. Sort of like is now being done using smart phones.
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Oh, thanks for the ping! - I’ll check out the article
“are destined to stand in a line waiting for entry.”
How is a palm scanner any quicker than a physical card?
The card would already have an ID in digital format. Palm scanner would have to take scanned data and formulatically create some sort of ID.
Maybe they plan to have multiple palm scanners and intentionally limit card scanners.
As everyone knows I am fervently anti-tech.
The brief TV animated Dilbert show had the company employees first having fingerprint, then palm print, for various places to go in the corporate building for their jobs. Then a little camera on a moving swivel arm in their cubicle that finally just moved with a whirring sound in front of their faces so they couldn’t see the screen to do their work.
Then a sign: Prepare for retinal scan.
And finally a line waiting at the “Prepare To Give Spinal Tap Fluid Sample.” area.
Not as exaggerated as those days.
“others expressed concerns about the “risk” of their personal biometric data being collected and misused or stolen.”
Risk?
It’s virtually guaranteed.
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“”It won’t suddenly one day become compulsory. There will be a transitional period when it will be pitched as more convenient. Sort of like is now being done using smart phones.””
Reminds me of the Ivy League student taking classes online during the Plandemic. He was living in South Korea, and all of his classes were online. When he attempted to register for another semester, he had to provide proof of vaxxination. He would not be allowed to ‘attend’ classes without this proof. He took his tuition money elsewhere.
"Sure!"
Everyone but me watched the X Files when it was first run.
I’m decades late but recently saw the incredibly frightening (for me) episode:
Season 11 episode “Rm9sbG93ZXJz”
Yes, the grim, gallows humor (not funny to me) had the same things we encounter (your username not on file, access not allowed, we are learning your purchase likes based on past orders and suggest these....). Horror to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GuGMn7n04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cosqCKuhAI
By the way, all of you could have known about (and told me about) the drones in the episode which are like the 2025 ones in New Jersey.
[Getting people used to the idea a little at a time.]
Yep
1) Oh, it’s more Convenient and Faster!
2) It helps prevent Identity Theft and Crime!
3) It’s part of our system - there’s nothing we can do!
4) You can’t BUY or SELL without it!
5) Refusal???!!! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD, CHRISTIAN!!!
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