School To Use Retina Scans On Kids
from the you-have-no-privacy-anywhere dept
Continiuing on the theme of biometrics becoming a bigger part of everyday life, a new high school in London has decided that kids will pay for meals by having their retinas scanned. No more worries about being bullied for your lunch money, apparently. The real reason, they claim, is so that poorer students who are given meals for free won't be stigmatized when others notice they don't have to pay. Honestly, I don't see why this requires retinal scanners. Way back when I was in elementary school they had this neat system of "lunch cards" that were punched by the lunch lady. No one needed to know how much was paid for each lunch card. But, I guess that system didn't give the government a copy of your retinal scan.
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Keep tabs on the poor
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When I was in high school...
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retina scans for kids
So, the poor kids won't be ridiculed for being poor, but the overweight kids can be ridiculed when the lunch person says, "Sorry, Billy, your mom says you're too fat to have dessert."
I have two words for this situation: BAG LUNCH!
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