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Fingerprint Requirement For a Work-Study Job?
BonesSB writes "I'm a student at a university in Massachusetts, where I have a federal work-study position. Yesterday, I got an email from the office that is responsible for student run organizations (one of which I work for) saying that I need to go to their office and have my fingerprints taken for the purposes of clocking in and out of work. This raises huge privacy concerns for me, as it should for everybody else. I am in the process of contacting the local newspaper, getting the word out to students everywhere, and talking directly to the office regarding this. I got an email back with two very contradictory sentences: 'There will be no image of your fingerprints anywhere. No one will have access to your fingerprints. The machine is storing your prints as a means of identifying who you are when you touch it.' Does anybody else attend a school that requires something similar? This is an obvious slippery slope, and something I am not taking lightly. What else should I do?"
Please.
With all due respect, you are a dumbass.
Here's one guy who still uses his brain for thinking, and he just doesn't see what this fingerprinting (which you may have forgotten was used as a special treatment for criminals in former times) is all about.
If they want to check his presence, logging him in and out, there are other methods to do that. They don't need his fingerprints. It worked perfectly well with badges and/or company ID cards.
And, yes, his fingerprints are all over the doorprint. Together with a gazillion of other fingerprints. And withoug registration that makes him one of the anonymous crowd.
Before all this "we need your fingerprints for this and that" nonsense, of course, as his fingerprints weren't not registered.
Now they are.
It's easy to ridicule people as paranoid. Instead, however, you should be thinking "why the heck are they requiring my fingerprints".
Fingerprints and other information stored on one one "computer" can be accessed from other "computers" sometimes without the knowledge or permission in charge of the information.
Are you an idiot or only playing one on the internet? You do realize that a fingerprint biometric scanner doesn't actually STORE a fingerprint?
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
It's work study. That means that the job is a requirement of his federal financial aid package. If he quits, then he can't pay for school.
No, it means he'd have to go find an real, UNSUBSIDIZED job for himself. (Or get a loan, or any number of other solutions.)
principles of being able to commit time-clock fraud?
Snowden and Manning are heroes.