09.05.06
Privacy v. Secrecy
It just hit me. All this brou-ha-ha about privacy isn’t about privacy at all. It’s about secrecy.
Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their accounts. In the past, students had to punch in their pin numbers.
“The finger’s better because all you’ve got to do is put your finger in, and you don’t have to do the number and get mixed up,” said Adrianna Harris, a second grader at Anna K. Davie Elementary School.
The new system speeds lunch lines, said city administrators. It’s being phased in to Rome High School, Rome Middle School and all the city’s elementary schools. The city hopes to have the system in use next month system-wide.
Some parents are uneasy with having their children’s fingerprints scanned, and wonder about how well the information is secured.
“It may be perfectly secure, but my daughter is a minor and I understand that supposedly the kids have the option to not have their prints scanned, but that’s not being articulated to my daughter,” said Hal Storey, who’s daughter is a 10th grader at Rome High.
This guy, if-God forbid- his daughter were abducted, would be screaming bloody murder to have her found. If the police could subpoena her fingerprints from the school, that may actually help in the investigation. It really has nothing to do with privacy. It has to do with this ridiculous paranoia that the government wants to watch your every move.
If you aren’t doing anything wrong, it shouldn’t bother you that there are agencies that want to protect you at all cost.
You idiots who read Orwell’s 1984 and saw it as a prediction need to go back and read it again. It is clearly a satirical take on the almost reflexive response you minions of appeasement and capitulation have. There are repressive regimes, but you don’t live in one, and neither do I. And you same clowns who want to claim the US is some neo-con “police state” are the ones wearing the Che t-shirts and think Castro and Chavez are just peachy.
I think most of you are un-serious kooks.
