Fingerprints at School
Date: Tuesday, September 27 @ 04:51:55 BST
Topic: Biometrics
One school at in Wiltshire (UK) will soon deploy biometric solutions to keep track of attendance at school. Parents of all pupils are yet to give their approval to this unprecedented move, which will use biometric in an educational environment rather than for improved security or access control. There are many more details in yesterday's article from the BBC.
The impact of biometrics has crossed some further borders. As well as authentication in IBM laptops, verifying that only the owner is allowed access, there is now fingerprint recognition in the iPAQ PDA from Hewlett-Packard.
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