theguardian.com,
Tue 09/06:
Sydney school’s use of fingerprint scanners in toilets an invasion of privacy, expert says
A Sydney high school’s decision to install fingerprint scanners at the entrance to toilets to track student movements and prevent vandalism has been criticised as “unreasonable and disproportionate” by a privacy expert. The system was introduced after two years of consultation with the school’s community focus group, and does not actually record a fingerprint. Samantha Floreani, the program lead at Digital Rights Watch, said preventing vandalism was not a good enough justification for what she calls an invasion of privacy. “Students should have the right to go to the bathroom without having their biometric information collected, and [their] movements constantly monitored,” she said.
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