Comments on: Biometric data collection in schools http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/ Protecting your rights in the digital age Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:48:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: info NeoGnostic: Biometric data and teaching your grandmother... http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/#comment-52883 info NeoGnostic: Biometric data and teaching your grandmother... Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:04:22 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/29/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/#comment-52883 [...] I read with great concern the news that up to 3,500 schools use biometric software to record the data of approximately three quarters of a million children. It is I presumed, the thin end of the wedge, a practice that this government will encourage in their own interest, and another means of gathering personal information.Then I read the item on broken biometric passports in The Register. Apart from a mixture of alarm (that millions of people may get needlessly and interminably stopped at passport control - a service which apparently is destined to slow to a standstill - literally - as biometric data gets checked "Immigration Officers will, until September 2007, have to leave the front desk to undertake additional checks of the digital signature using the readers located in back offices.") and relief (that the system will never work), I was left with the thought that:... if schools can manage it, perhaps government should consult with them about how it can be done!Of course (I suppose) the school system does not (yet?) involve some form of ID card or passport which stores the child's details, but at the very least, it must have solved the search and match issues! The Register reports: "we were told by our consultants that the use of current facial recognition technology with two dimensional images (as is the case for ePassports) is not sufficiently reliable to enable fully automated searches even in relatively small databases, and performance is known to decline as database size increases... current facial recognition software cannot be used to check new applications against the entire database of existing ePassport holders."It also beats me how a government that thinks knowing a criminal's e-mail address will be an effective means of controlling his/her e-activity (see my last post and Phil Bradley's longer post) can also see the need for biometric data! Surely all they need is your name?>>Technorati tags: ePassports; government; personal_information; biometric_data>>IceRocket tags: ePassports; government; personal_information; biometric_dataLabels: biometric data, children, ePassports, personal information, schools [...] [...] I read with great concern the news that up to 3,500 schools use biometric software to record the data of approximately three quarters of a million children. It is I presumed, the thin end of the wedge, a practice that this government will encourage in their own interest, and another means of gathering personal information.Then I read the item on broken biometric passports in The Register. Apart from a mixture of alarm (that millions of people may get needlessly and interminably stopped at passport control - a service which apparently is destined to slow to a standstill - literally - as biometric data gets checked “Immigration Officers will, until September 2007, have to leave the front desk to undertake additional checks of the digital signature using the readers located in back offices.”) and relief (that the system will never work), I was left with the thought that:… if schools can manage it, perhaps government should consult with them about how it can be done!Of course (I suppose) the school system does not (yet?) involve some form of ID card or passport which stores the child’s details, but at the very least, it must have solved the search and match issues! The Register reports: “we were told by our consultants that the use of current facial recognition technology with two dimensional images (as is the case for ePassports) is not sufficiently reliable to enable fully automated searches even in relatively small databases, and performance is known to decline as database size increases… current facial recognition software cannot be used to check new applications against the entire database of existing ePassport holders.”It also beats me how a government that thinks knowing a criminal’s e-mail address will be an effective means of controlling his/her e-activity (see my last post and Phil Bradley’s longer post) can also see the need for biometric data! Surely all they need is your name?>>Technorati tags: ePassports; government; personal_information; biometric_data>>IceRocket tags: ePassports; government; personal_information; biometric_dataLabels: biometric data, children, ePassports, personal information, schools [...]

]]> By: IMPACT® http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/#comment-27911 IMPACT® Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:42:02 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/29/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/#comment-27911 <strong>OpenRightsGroup: Biometric Data in Schools...</strong> The OpenRightsGroup is currently campaigning about the collection of biometric data on school children. They are asking us to write to our MPs to ask them to support an House of Parliament motion by Greg Mulholland MP. If you've not... OpenRightsGroup: Biometric Data in Schools…

The OpenRightsGroup is currently campaigning about the collection of biometric data on school children. They are asking us to write to our MPs to ask them to support an House of Parliament motion by Greg Mulholland MP. If you’ve not…

]]> By: chrs http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/#comment-27906 chrs Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:04:09 +0000 http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/01/29/biometric-data-collection-in-schools/#comment-27906 You may want to check that they haven't already got their name up: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=32367&SESSION=885 I sent my MP a letter and then saw that his name was already there. The problem with having an MP who agrees with you on most issues is that you can't write them angry letters asking why they don't support this or that.... You may want to check that they haven’t already got their name up:
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=32367&SESSION=885
I sent my MP a letter and then saw that his name was already there.

The problem with having an MP who agrees with you on most issues is that you can’t write them angry letters asking why they don’t support this or that….

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