Book Companion:

Jeanette Woodward

Fingerprinting and Biometrics

Privacy in 2020
Kim Zetter, Wired News, September 07, 2007
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/privacy-in-2020.html
PCs with a mandatory static IP address. Every car outfitted with a working transponder. A penniless marketplace where every purchase and financial transaction is electronically tracked. Mandatory MySpace pages that every citizen will be required to maintain with up-to-date contact information.These are some of the practices that Robert Gellman, a privacy and information practices consultant in Washington, DC, says will be commonplace in 2020. . .

High technology off menu: After 1 day, Wilmette district's use of pupils' fingerprints to pay for lunches is put on hold because of privacy and legal concerns
Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune, September 7, 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-lunch_07sep07,1,56341.story
Shortly after rolling out a new lunch program that allows pupils to pay for hot meals with a scan of their fingerprint, Wilmette school officials put the system on hold after learning that a new Illinois law limits the use of biometric information to protect children's privacy. That, and the system didn't work, perhaps because of grubby fingers or a computer glitch, said officials from Wilmette Elementary School District 39. . .

New Scanners for Tracking City Workers
By SEWELL CHAN Published: January 23, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/nyregion/23scanning.html?ex=1190260800&en=85e8b69e140c3669&ei=5070
The Bloomberg administration is devoting more than $180 million toward state-of-the-art technology to keep track of when city employees come and go, with one agency requiring its workers to scan their hands each time they enter and leave the workplace. . .