Will Your Child's Iris Scans Head for the Clouds....Like the Army's?
| What is the Learning Registry gathering and sharing? |
Why is the Department of Defense partially funding the Learning Registry?
The practice of iris scans being taken on children for "bus information and safety" was confirmed by the Polk County Board of Education. These scans were performed and parental consent was not asked for nor given before the scans took place. The company has assured parents the information has been destroyed but how does a parent know if this is true? If information is sent to the cloud or stored elsewhere electronically, is it ever eliminated completely? Who/what has access to this student biometric information? Is there a digital footprint (or eye scan) student dossier hovering somewhere?
Gathering of biometric information and storing it in the cloud is not confined to the education industry. The Army is also utilizing iris scans for data. From Army’s Fingerprint and Iris Databases Head for the Cloud:
The next time U.S. soldiers snap a picture of your eye or scan your face, they’re likely to