Biometrics banned in Florida schools

Kevin Townsend in his blog comments on Florida`s decision to ban the use of biometrics in schools.

We do not need biometrics to provide secure identity. However, once it is widespread within a system, its value is less as an access or identity device, but more as a tracking device. Consider movement around a campus. If students need an eye or palm or fingerprint scan to enter the library, board a bus, or buy a snack in the cafeteria, then the system knows who is where all of the time.

Then imagine this writ large across the nation. The authorities will know where everyone is, all of the time. The problem with introducing biometrics into schools is that we are breeding a generation that will be comfortable with and fully accepting of total government surveillance. And that is something we need to prevent now rather than redress when it’s too late.

http://kevtownsend.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/why-we-must-keep-biometrics-out-of-schools/