Image viaAn elementary school library in Manchester, England has begun using a new system developed by Microsoft where kids use their thumbprints to check-out and return books.The head of the school, Lesley Isherwood, praises the system for its efficiency and notes that no image of the fingerprints are ever stored. The system is also entirely voluntary. Phil Booth, national coordinator of NO2ID, a privacy campaign group is highly skeptical of the program. “For such a trivial issue as taking out of library books the taking of fingerprints is way over the top and wrong...It conditions children to hand over sensitive personal...
