Thursday, 16 December 2010 11:03 'The commissioner is also concerned that parents are not allowed legal redress after one man was told he could not challenge the compulsory fingerprinting, without his permission, of his daughter for a "unique pupil number". In many schools, when using the canteen or library, children, as young as four, place their thumbs on a scanner and lunch money is deducted from their account or they are registered as borrowing a book. Research carried out by Dr Emmeline Taylor, at Salford University, found earlier this year that 3,500 schools in the UK – one in seven – are using fingerprint technology. EU data protection rules, Brussels legislation that overrides British law, requires that the gathering of information such as biometric fingerprints, must be "proportionate" and must allow judicial challenges.' Read more: Europe Tells Britain to Justify Itself over Fingerprinting Children in Schools Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:54 'David Cameron’s true position on Europe is now clear – he’s an integrationist. His administration has written to the European Commission asking it to invoke a provision in the Lisbon Treaty called “enhanced cooperation”. This allows groups of EU countries to push forward with speedier integration, without every member taking part, and the Government wants to use it to create a single European patent system.' Read more: Cameron Tells the EU 'We Want Faster Integration'
Friday, 17 December 2010
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