I find this troubling. Big Brother meets the Lunch Lady.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/...on/5856733.htm
Spree: Link to article about Akron Bd. of Ed. considering purchase of a system which will allow students to purchase school lunches by registering/reading fingerprints.
Sometimes I think we become too enamored of technology for technology's sake. I mean, the board is seriously considering spending $700 K for this system. Meanwhile, there will be no cost savings, no reduction in labor (likely an increase when you consider they will have to program and maintain the servers needed to make this happen) and the fucking idiots think there's not a privacy issue.
Can someone explain to me how mapping two unique points based upon a person's fingerprint as an identifying mark is any less an invasion of privacy than the fingerprint itself? And who really believes that the fingerprints will be disposed of -- Who's going to supervise that?
The claim is that it will reduce loss of lunch tickets and reduce the "stigma" of kids who get free or reduced price lunches and have to pay with a ticket as opposed to those kids who pay with cash. Hardly justifies the cost, if you ask me. Thoughts?
