Let your finger do the shopping.No more pocketing lunch money to up your CD collection. Schools in Pennsylvania are using a fingerprint fingerprint, an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been scanning system, allowing students to load up on pizza and tater tots Tater Tots, also known as "Tots", a registered trademark for a commercial form of hash browns, is a side-dish made from deep-fried, grated potatoes. Tater Tots are widely recognized for their crispiness, cylindrical shape and small size. with the point of a finger. Computers scan students' fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. , and lunch tabs are deducted daily from debit accounts set up by parents. Schools are using it for checking out library books, too. Still, the system isn't without controversy. ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. director Barry Steinhardt worries, "It could be used to invade kids' privacy." But Bob Engen, president of Biometrics, which makes the scanners, swears the system follows privacy guidelines. Just no mugshots, OK? |
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