Posted on 04/11/2025 5:48:19 AM PDT by SaveFerris
(2024)
On Nov. 4, Dartmouth Dining began enrolling students in a palm biometric recognition scanner system at the Class of 1953 Commons. Starting this winter term, students will be able to use palm biometric technology to enter the Class of 1953 Commons instead of swiping in with a physical ID card. The biometric technology is created by IDEMIA, a technology company that specializes in biometrics and cryptography.
According to Dartmouth Dining director Jon Plodzik, any student who wants to utilize the new system in the winter term can complete the enrollment process by visiting the signup area in ’53 Commons. The system is not, however, required.
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As of Nov. 12, 789 Dartmouth students — out of the College’s more than 4,000 undergraduates — had enrolled in the new program, according to Plodzik.
Plodzik compared the system to an “E-Z pass” that allows students to “skip” the line.
There will be three lanes at ’53 Commons with biometric scanners and one lane with an employee who will swipe students in manually, according to Plodzik.
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Plodzik explained that fingerprint data is not stored in the scanner. A document written by IDEMIA, which Plodzik shared with The Dartmouth, stated that an individual’s finger image is stored as “template[s].”
“A template is a set of 0’s and 1’s created from a mathematical formula that is patented called a template generator,” IDEMIA wrote. “You cannot reverse engineer the 0’s and 1’s into the mathematical representation of the finger back to the finger image.”
When a student scans their hand to enter ’53 Commons, the system “sorts through the reference templates” to find the closest match, the document continues. Images taken by the scanners are “immediately discarded.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedartmouth.com ...
“If you haven’t enrolled before we start the winter term, you’re going to be in a very long line,” Plodzik said. “And then you’re going to have to go into another line to enroll.”
Students have expressed mixed reactions to the new scanners.
NOTE THE ARTICLE DATE - Published November 15, 2024
(almost 5 months ago)
"The Dartmouth" called it "news" so....
Blast from the recent past - Published November 15, 2024
(There will be three lanes at ’53 Commons with biometric scanners and one lane with an employee who will swipe students in manually, according to Plodzik.)
YOU VILL COMPLY OR VEE VILL MAKE IT INCONVENIENT
So ID to see a doc.
ID for dining.
But not to vote.
Oh, goodie again!
Or is it that the student who enrolled isn't the student attending and one way to catch them is biometric scans at the cafeteria?
My first suspicion would be students from Communist China.
the keep all the top secrets stuff only seen in mission impossible right in the kitchen.
Looks like some are doing enrollment(?) / dining privileges too
A new generation totally-accustomed to palm-scanning
Convenient, secure, fast, and .... controlling
I get it from an I/T perspective - I would be championing such - except that it has the potential to cut one off from the ability to BUY (and maybe eventually, SELL)
I love The bugs Bunny cartoon where he’s dressed as a palm reader ask would you like your palm read? The person says yes and puts out his hand and Bugs paints it with red paint.
Voting no everything else yes
[Voting(?) NO!
everything else(?) YES!]
The DEMOCRATS have been rigging the system for
a loooooong time now - Globalists totally on board too
Small wonder the Democrats / Uniparty / Globalists
all LOVE each other so much - CONTROL the MASSES
LOL 😆
was that actually in the show?
Naw.
I would have starved in Uni if kind friends had not given me their dinner pass once in awhile when they were dining elsewhere.
(and yes, I worked part time while attending.)
Oh...LOL
Oh wow - I guess you’d have to drag them along NOW
and have them scan THEIR palms - I wonder if that will be allowed?
Scan-for-a-friend?
When I returned to college in the late 1980s there were University-Only Debit Cards that students had for the
vending machines - I would see some of them repeatedly
scanning - because the bills were going to Dad and Mom
I didn’t get one because I was afraid I’d use it too much
I usually went to Taco Bell after class, cooked at my apartment,
or once in awhile, I’d eat at the Student Union
Whole Foods uses this technology - you can scan in your palm print and “easily” hook it up to your bank account.
As my tech security IT SIL told me: You can change your credit cards if they’re breached, you can’t change your palm print.
He strongly advises against using this new “form of ID.”
That’s enough for me...
Not sure if you saw this one
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