0 Fingerprinting fun for village Scouts

Devon UK

Monday, November 15, 2010, 11:00

MORE Scouts could have their fingerprints taken after the success of a fun session designed to bring police closer to community groups.

The Kenton Scout group was the latest to take part, and was visited by Police Community Support Deborah Sleeman during an activity evening at the Victory Hall.
Scouts were given a chance to use a fingerprint kit and each was given a print to take home.
"If anyone has social gatherings and feels that the children would like me to attend with my kit then please contact me," PCSO Sleeman said.
Link: http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Fingerprinting-fun-village-Scouts/article-2893432-detail/article.html 

They take childrens blood at birth, now fingerprints too.....all straight onto a database for later use....see below.

The sinister truth about what they do with our children's fingerprints

By SUE REID
Last updated at 01:09 11 October 2007

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Fionna Elliot does not look like a firebrand. A hard-working mother, she has never had the time or the interest to dabble in politics.
Yet when the local primary school wrote to her saying they were about to fingerprint her son Alexander, eight, and daughter Jessica, only six, she was furious.
The 29-year-old housewife from Balby in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, saw it as a dangerous step towards a Big Brother society.
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Sinister: The taking of children's fingerprints is seen by many as a step too far

She didn't want her children fingerprinted and she marched off to Waverley School, five minutes from the family's home, to protest to the headmistress.
"The school said they were taking the thumb print of every child," Fiona explained at her neat, semi-detached home this week.
"The new electronic mapping system would allow children to borrow books from the library.
"The headmistress said it would be exciting for the pupils and help them develop a love of books and reading."
Each child's fingerprint would replace their library card.
Placing their fingerprint on a scanner would open their computer file with records of the books they had borrowed.
The argument is that this would dramatically simplify record-keeping.
But Fiona Elliott is not prepared to accept it.
"I told the headmistress that the biometric data could easily be stolen by identity thieves or used by the State for some dubious purpose," she says.

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