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London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in

Posted by Unknown on from the wait'll-they-roll-out-dna-based-timecards dept.

Bismillah writes "Biometrics is hot stuff, not just for Apple but cleaning companies like the UK division of Denmark's IIS which tidies the London Underground railway network. However, the cleaners aren't happy about having to clock in and out with biometric fingerprint sensors, and are taking industrial action to stop the practice."

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  1. Re:BFD by DrXym · · Score: -1, Troll

    Possibly, but another very good reason they don't want scanners is that it's demeaning and insulting.

    If you don't want to be demeaned, don't work in a job where your role includes cleaning up human excrement and vomit from trains.

    Besides, the demeaning argument could be applied to any kind of time keeping system. So you use your finger to clock on instead of a card. So what?