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Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-seeing-eye-to-eye-with-parents dept.

schwit1 writes "Parents in Polk County, Florida are outraged after learning that students in area schools had their irises scanned as part of a new security program without obtaining proper permission. Two days before their Memorial Day weekend break, kids from at least three different public schools — Bethune Academy (K–5), Davenport School of the Arts (K–5, middle, and high school), and Daniel Jenkins Academy (grades 6–12) — were subjected to iris scans without their parents' knowledge or consent. The scans are essentially optical fingerprints, which the school intended to collect to create a database of biometric information for school-bus security."

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  1. Oh, the ironies... by Mystakaphoros · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meanwhile, down the hall, students were studying the Bill of Rights.

  2. imagine the confusion if by nopainogain · · Score: 3, Funny

    the kids went home and said "mommy, the school scanned the pupils today".

  3. Re:Where are these parents by localman57 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fucking around on Facebook.

  4. Backdoor Contact lens??? by RobertLTux · · Score: 4, Funny

    i wonder how hard it would be to make a contact lens that caused the scanner to throw an error (or worse was a backdoor into the system).

    Scanning Image
    Processing
    Identified Krystal Rayne Dawnmeadow approved SYSTEM ADMIN ALL ACCESS

    (and of course daddy would have told his favorite minion exactly what to punch into a terminal to .....)

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  5. Re:s/Freedom/Security/g by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't anthropomorphize information.

    It hates it when you do that.