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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?"
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?
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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.)