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As we are now one term into the 2013-14 academic year, and expect the number of schools using the technology to have increased over the summer, and the secondary school population now above 3.2 million, if the number of secondary schools using biometric technology increased from 25% to 30%, more than one million children would be fingerprintedA 13-year-old student at a school in Wales refused to submit to the data collection. Melody, whose last name is being withheld due to her age, doubted the school's good intentions when it was declared that fingerprints were going to be collected from students in order to shorten lines in the cafeteria.
Comment: Meanwhile, in Russia: There you have it: legal in Russia, illegal in the USA.
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