From the Daily Mail here...
They point out that no other country in Europe routinely fingerprints children and that even communist China has abandoned plans for fingerprinting school pupils because it breaches human rights.
They quote the Minister for Schools and Learning, Jim Knight, who this summer admitted that the police can simply help themselves to the children's fingerprints if they are trying to solve a crime.
As one IT security consultant in Britain, Brian Drury, said recently: "If a child has never touched a fingerprint scanner, there is zero probability of being incorrectly investigated for a crime.
"Once a child has touched a scanner they will be at the mercy of the algorithm [stored in the school computer] for the rest of their lives."
More on the Leave Them Kids Alone website...
Read what the BBC have to say....
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