BIOMETRICS

We really need your urgent help!

 As you know, we’ve been working hard on the use of children’s fingerprints in school. Increasing numbers of schools are installing systems that use fingerprints as identifiers in the school library or canteen and also for registration purposes.

 Greg Mulholland MP has tabled Early Day Motion 686 which you can see at: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=32367&SESSION=885

 Please, please would you mind contacting your MP as soon as possible, asking him/her to sign this EDM. The more signatures it receives, the better the chance that we can get this worrying practice stopped, or at least tightly regulated.

 It doesn’t matter if your child is not at school: it’s the whole principle of using biometrics for low-level purposes that is at stake here. If we simply let it carry on in schools, there is a real risk that these systems could become routine in other situations – the local library? The leisure centre?

 We have been working closely with LTKA – see their website for more information about the campaign:http://www.leavethemkidsalone.com/