Hong Kong school to stop fingerprinting school children for attendance purposes

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Hong Kong school to stop fingerprinting school children for attendance purposes

15th Nov 2006, 04:18 GMT

Filed under: Media, Tech Tuesdays, Teachers, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Monitoring your kids A Hong Kong school has been fingerprinting children to take attendance of students for over a year, and the Hong Kong government's privacy commissioner has ordered the school to stop before the practice becomes an accepted form of privacy violation throughout the country. The Kowloon district school has been using the system since last year, but the fingerprinting equipment has now been removed and all of the data about individual students has been destroyed. The Justice of the Peace at the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner ruled that the violation of the students' privacy was in excess of the needs provided as the basis for the invasion: taking daily attendance. The commissioner felt it was just as easy for a teacher to look throughout the classroom and determine who was there and who was not, as it was to compile a database of student fingerprints and then require fingerprint screening every day at the beginning of class. Well, duh. Also important to the commissioner was the lack of any parental consent for the fingerprinting. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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