Amid concerns, Ill. district to enact finger scanning in the lunch line

Lake Zurich Community School District 95 will switch to a finger-scanning process in the lunch line, despite concerns from some activists about the implications of students using such technology, reports The Daily Herald.

Officials say switching to the biometric system next year will help streamline cafeteria throughput and also help students who may lose their identification cards.

A civil rights group, as well as several child psychologists, are encouraging parents to question the use of the technology, claiming that students’ information could be jeopardized and the process may cause them to misunderstand the significance of sharing personal information.

“We'll record their thumbprints, there will be thumbprint readers at all the cash registers … It makes it faster and, also, there's a lot less opportunity for any kind of misuse or fraud when they're using biometrics," Doug Goldberg—the Lake Zurich, Ill., district’s board president—told the website.

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