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Would you care if your schools used biometrics to track student attendance, tardies, lunch accounts etc?

https://www.themainewire.com/2024/02/maine-school-will-begin-biometric-scanning-data-collection-for-students/

Posted - February 26

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  • 13277
    No. I haven’t attended public school since 1978.
      February 26, 2024 7:52 PM MST
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  • 34450
    You don't have children in your family or friends with children?
      February 27, 2024 5:10 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Not that young.
      February 27, 2024 6:45 AM MST
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  • 34450
    So you don't care unless it affects you/yours directly?
      February 27, 2024 7:07 AM MST
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  • 13277
    I have more immediate concerns.
      February 29, 2024 1:11 PM MST
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  • 2219
    I'd be concerned that they won't stop at schools but tab the general population. 
      February 27, 2024 3:59 AM MST
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  • 34450
    Not for me or mine. 
      February 27, 2024 5:11 AM MST
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  • 13277
    It’s already in use in stores like Whole Foods and event venues.
      February 27, 2024 6:47 AM MST
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  • 34450
    They are scanning body parts (fingers etc) to pay at Whole Foods? I did not know that.  This is not something I would agree to do. This post was edited by my2cents at February 29, 2024 1:05 PM MST
      February 27, 2024 7:06 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Not to pay. I believe it’s for security.
      February 29, 2024 1:06 PM MST
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  • 34450
    No, they are using it for payment.
      February 29, 2024 3:05 PM MST
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  • 8214
    It will account for the right people being in the school and the wrong ones kept out.  All of the tracking is the basis for; eventually not being able to buy or sell without a chip in your right hand or your forehead, take your pick.  All will be done for the "good and safety of the people," all is forewarned in the Bible.
    Back in the 70's I was on a ministry bus trip to Oklahoma, we stopped in a local store to buy snack and drinks.  In the store was the first ever, I had seen, a scanner to scan the food. No one else, a large bus load of us, seemed as upset by it as I was.  As crime increases and the threat of outside forces attacking us, it will get worse.  


    This post was edited by Art Lover at February 27, 2024 5:41 PM MST
      February 27, 2024 7:11 AM MST
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  • 34450
    Yep laying the.foundations for it.
      February 27, 2024 5:43 PM MST
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  • 17619
    Yes, I would care. 
      February 27, 2024 8:06 AM MST
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  • 34450
    My kids would not be attending that school. 
      February 27, 2024 5:43 PM MST
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  • 23647

    I would care, yes.
    I've read the state of Maine ACLU has concerns, too.
      February 29, 2024 3:31 PM MST
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  • 34450
    I hope they help the parents there.
      February 29, 2024 4:46 PM MST
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