Kids Buy Lunch with their Fingers
and the actual post:
Kids buy lunch with their fingers
I am all for the advances of technology (I get paid to blog!) but this might be a little creepy for my tastes.
The Rome City School system in Georgia is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their bank accounts to pay for lunch. What, students have bank accounts? I think I am even more scandalized.
One student defends the system, saying "all you've got to do is put your finger in, and you don't have to do the number and get mixed up." Some parents, however, are upset by the fingerprinting of their children who may not realize their rights are being violated.
I don't know - practical, or big brother-ish? I'm going with the latter.
There were many comments, here is what I posted:
It is a violation of civil rights if the school is requiring participation. I will not have my children fingerprinted/chip implanted/etc. I am not an "unreasonable parent" as Harry claims. I am one who worries about where this country is headed. It has nothing to do with "criminal" acts. It has to do with a right to privacy. It is just a few steps from fingerprinting to implanting chips. They already have chips that they are implanting in animals so you can "locate your lost dog." Let’s see, Hmmmm. I know, implant convicted criminals so that there is no point in escaping, we can just track them down - they don't have any rights anyway. Just a small step to implant them in your child at birth - for safety reasons of course. Can't abduct a child that's been lo-jacked right? Well, then why ever have the chips removed? You have nothing to hide, right?
It is not illegal to read Playboy/girl (at least not today), but it is not something I would have announced to my entire neighborhood either. It's not illegal to practice a different religion than my neighbors (again, at least not today), but it's not necessarily something I want to discuss with them. Big brother is always looking over your shoulder and he's intrusive enough already between video cameras on every corner and facial recognition software. There is no place you can go anymore to be FREE except the woods with no electricity. And believe me - I am thinking about it.
