British Children to be Subjected to Compulsary Fingerprinting under EU Rules Drawn Up in Secret! [View all]

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Last edited Sun Jan 12, 2014, 01:43 PM - Edit history (1)

(If this is going to be EU Policy--then how long before US and Canada move forward with this for our own school age children?)

ON EDIT: RT International feed from GB show investigation that some schools in GB already started to do this without parent's permission. The kids didn't know what it was all about when it was being done. Parents found out from kids afterwards.

ON EDIT: to Poster dipsydoodle for Current Links to News Reports about Parents Questioning this policy:

RT link here Jan. 11th 2014 : UK schools fingerprinted over 800K children, third without parental consent - watchdog http://rt.com/news/uk-school-children-fingerprinted-461/

Mail reported on it Jan. 2nd too : More than 1million children have fingerprints taken at school, often without their parents' knowledge http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532914/More-1million-children-fingerprints-taken-school-without-parents-knowledge.html

Press reported on it today - Jan.12th : Over 800K kids fingerprinted in UK schools http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/12/345095/over-800k-kids-fingerprinted-in-uk/


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http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/30/politics.humanrights

British children, possibly as young as six, will be subjected to compulsory fingerprinting under European Union rules being drawn up in secret. The prints will be stored on a database which could be shared with countries around the world.




A portable fingerprint scanner on display. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty

The prospect has alarmed civil liberties groups who fear it represents a 'sea change' in the state's relationship with children and one that may lead to juveniles being erroneously accused of crimes. Under laws being drawn up behind closed doors by the European Commission's 'Article Six' committee, which is composed of representatives of the European Union's 25 member states, all children will have to attend a finger-printing centre to obtain an EU passport by June 2009 at the latest.

The use of fingerprints and other biometric data is designed to prevent passport fraud and allow European member states to meet US entry visa requirements, but the decision to fingerprint children has disturbed human rights groups.

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'This is a sea change,' said Ben Hayes, spokesman for Statewatch. 'We are going from fingerprinting criminals to universal fingerprinting without any real debate. In the long term everyone's fingerprints will be stored on a central database. You have to ask what will be the costs to a person's privacy.'

The UK, meanwhile, observes that it has collected the fingerprints of five-year-old asylum seekers with no 'significant problems'. Since February the Home Office has been fingerprinting children as young as five at asylum centres in Croydon and Liverpool. It took the decision amid concerns children were being registered by several families in order to claim more benefits.

MORE about this and even Sweden instituting this AT:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/30/politics.humanrights