School Fingerprints Children Who Borrow Books

Seeing this stuff happen, while in full awareness of where the game ends, is surreal

Children, 4, 'to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library'
by Andrew Hough for The Telegraph

Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program.

Under the scheme, pupils swipe a bar code inside the book they want borrow then press their thumb on to a scanner to authorise the loan. Books are returned in the same way.

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