Did Oceania Have This?

[Vincent A. Maeder]

And what would be the legislative intent of such a regulation?  Eh?
Perhaps it would be helpful to find the political leanings in the
regulatory board, but I think this is an example of better research
through commercialism.  In such an endeavor there has to be an end,
either political (which is apparent is other regulations of the board or
the individual leanings of the board members) or commercial/profit
(which is apparent when we follow the contracts/money for the placement
of the fingerprint machines and their software. follow the idents as the
travel through the machines to the databases. who owns the databases and
who has rights to the database?)  In any event, what the heck advantage
is being given here?  I believe this runs afoul of the Constitution
somewhere, although it has been too many years since I have studied that
thing, and the government would need some compelling interest to create
this ugly regulation.
V.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Strzechowski
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:31 AM
To: Pynchon-L
Subject: Did Oceania Have This?
 
Fingerprints Required To Buy School Lunch
 
"Akron students will be fingerprinted beginning this fall to identify
them in school lunch lines.
 
[...]
"Students' fingerprints will be put into a scanner that will make a
template of binary numbers corresponding with the unique swirls and
arches of each print. When students go through the lunch line, they will
place their finger on a scanner that will identify them based on the
stored template."
Full story at:
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/5957915.htm
 
 
Methinks it's a pretty sneaky, invasive way to create a database. My
kids would be bringing their own lunches to school.
 
Tim