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US spooks storing our pupils' prints

Sunday December 13,2009
By Hilary Douglas

PUPILS fighting a plan to digitally °©fingerprint them for cashless canteen payments have discovered the °©company employed by the school to store the data is the same one used by the American security services.

The secondary school students are worried that the biometric data could fall into the hands of identity thieves and compromise them for life.

Vericool, which supplied the °©software to Kingsbridge Community College in Devon, is owned by US °©company Anteon, used by many US government departments including security and counter terrorism.

The system used at the school °©copies the unique contour of each youngster’s fingerprint, but head teacher Roger Pope insists it is impossible for the digital record to be used to recreate a complete fingerprint.

But four senior pupils are leading a campaign to have the fingerprint °©identification revoked and are °©refusing to let their prints be taken.

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At long last the pupils themselves are waking up to their self worth and doing something about it. It will interesting to see the outcome. Lets hope that some of them read this Forum and the LTKA website.