Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission 342
schwit1 writes "Parents in Polk County, Florida are outraged after learning that students in area schools had their irises scanned as part of a new security program without obtaining proper permission. Two days before their Memorial Day weekend break, kids from at least three different public schools — Bethune Academy (K–5), Davenport School of the Arts (K–5, middle, and high school), and Daniel Jenkins Academy (grades 6–12) — were subjected to iris scans without their parents' knowledge or consent. The scans are essentially optical fingerprints, which the school intended to collect to create a database of biometric information for school-bus security."
Re:Oh, the ironies... (Score:5, Interesting)
Illinois high school teacher John Dryden has been reprimanded and docked a day’s pay after informing his students of their Constitutional rights before administering a school-mandated survey about “at-risk behavior.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/29/high-school-teacher-punished-for-informing-students-of-their-fifth-amendment-right/
Re:Oh, the ironies... (Score:4, Interesting)
Illinois high school teacher John Dryden has been reprimanded and docked a day’s pay after informing his students of their Constitutional rights before administering a school-mandated survey about “at-risk behavior.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/29/high-school-teacher-punished-for-informing-students-of-their-fifth-amendment-right/
Sadly, it doesn't surprise me. When I was teaching high school journalism, I got repeated verbal orders to infringe on student free speech, which I was supposed to follow up on without a paper trail so that admin couldn't be connected to the violation. Got in a fair amount of trouble for "failing to do so" a few times. Needless to say, I don't work there anymore.
Re:Oh, the ironies... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:So let's give 'em *MORE* tax money! YAY!!!! (Score:4, Interesting)
Bush never performed "extrajudicial killings" on US citizens.
I suppose we don't really know....because the Patriot Act enacted under Bush, made it legal to disappear US citizens in secrecy.
Re:s/Freedom/Security/g (Score:5, Interesting)
We're not really talking about security hear. We're talking about control.
It's a subtly difference concept.
Re:s/Freedom/Security/g (Score:4, Interesting)
is he any worse than Jon Q geek rooting his phone every night and downloading new ROM's for no reason?
Re:s/Freedom/Security/g (Score:2, Interesting)
"Once that becomes unavoidable..."
It has.
"...it is the responsibility of all good citizens to end the police state as quickly as possible."
Just keep in mind that the only real job of any revolutionary is to make the state worse. To do little things that the state will over-react to by clamping down hard on every one and every thing. This gets more and more cud-chewers pissed off, and turns them into revolutionaries as well.
Because no revolution succeeds until the revolutionaries outnumber the revolted-against in numbers sufficient to overcome any advantage in weaponry.
Re:s/Freedom/Security/g (Score:4, Interesting)
It was information completely unknown to anyone before scanning, unless someone already took high res close up pictures of children's irises. That is very unlikely.
Do you know the precise temperature (down to 0.001K) and composition at a sub-millimetric scale of all matter in a 100km radius around the center of Jupiter?
I bet you don't. Nor do I know what my own iris patterns are.