] CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (AP) %u2014 Some parents and students
] said they were concerned about children's privacy as a
] northwestern Indiana school district prepares to use
] fingerprints to identify students while buying school
] meals.
]
] The Hanover Community School Corp. plans to use a new
] cafeteria cash register system, which uses fingerprints
] instead of meal cards to charge students.
]
] Some parents and students questioned how else the
] fingerprints might be used, but school officials say the
] system would make the cafeterias more efficient and does
] not infringe on privacy.

Call me crazy... but my highschool had I think a magstripe or barcode reader for scanning student photo IDs. It seemed to work really well at keeping track of who bought what in the cafeteria without conjuring scary Orwellian "Big Brother" images. I fail to see why a biometric system is necessary in a school cafeteria.

Moral of the story... your civil liberties are not taken away in one foul swoop - they are chipped away little by little so not enough people notice to raise any red flags with a large percentage of the population.

LB

Some question using student fingerprints for school meals