Keep Them Students Rollin'
A public high school in Maine is among the first in the state to adopt biometric scanning technology to track student attendance.
Caribou High School in Aroostook County (RSU 39) has contracted with IdentiMetrics to implement a system that scans students’ fingerprints, stores the data, and creates a tracking system so that administrators can have an easier time keeping track of the roughly 460 students.
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“[P]lease be assured that the new software adheres to strict privacy guidelines, and it will only be used for attendance purposes within our school environment,” Selfridge said.
[And if you believe that load of crap...you're a government indoctrination camp (“public school”) success story!]
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In Nov., the Mills Administration admitted that a breach of Maine.gov systems nearly six months earlier resulted in a Russian hacking group stealing information on nearly every Maine resident, including Maine Department of Education data on students.
It’s not clear from Selfridge’s letter whether the Maine DOE, the company behind IdentiMetrics, or other corporate third parties would have access to students’ biometric data.
It’s also not clear whether parents and students will have the option to opt out of having their biometric data collected and stored by the government-run school.
Nor is it clear whether, when, and how data kept on students would be destroyed after graduation.
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Maine School Will Begin Biometric Scanning, Data Collection for Students